Hackers Steal Over Rs. 16,180 Crore from Payment Gateway Company
In a shocking cyber attack incident, it has come to light that cybercriminals successfully infiltrated a payment gateway account and stole an astonishing amount of Rs. 16,800 crore. Thane Police have taken action by filing an FIR, which claims that a group of individuals illicitly accessed the account of a payment gateway service provider company and transferred the funds from various bank accounts. What is particularly alarming is that these cybercriminals executed this operation undetected for an extended period of time.
The fraud has been going on for a long time and came to light after a complaint was lodged with the Srinagar police station in Maharashtra’s Thane city, PTI reported. The complaint alleged hacking of the company’s payment gateway account in April 2023 and Rs. 25 billion will be cleaned out. This was revealed by an official of the Naupada police station.
However, this amount was hardly the tip of the iceberg because when the police actually conducted the investigation, it was a mega fraud worth over Rs. 16,180 million was revealed. All this is part of the FIR registered by the police.
Following a complaint by a Thane crime branch official, the Naupada police on Friday registered an FIR against Sanjay Singh, Amol Andale, Sameer Dighe, Jitendra Pandey and another unidentified person under sections 420 (cheating), 409 (criminal trespass) of the Indian Penal Code. trust), 467, 468 (forgery), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 34 (common purpose) and the provisions of the Information Technology Act.
However, though an FIR has been registered, the police have yet to make any arrests.
According to the FIR, the accused Jitendra Pandey previously worked for 8-10 years in banks as a relationship and sales manager.
The police suspect that there may be many players involved in this long-running mega-mela. Also, the scam may not be limited to just one company or region, and in fact, police suspect it may have India-wide implications for multiple companies and individuals, and has spread to thousands of bank accounts.
The investigation is going on as investigators have found several forged documents, the FIR said.
