4 arrested in ICMR data leak case now booked in separate incident of data brokering
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ppNew Delhi Weeks after Delhi Police arrested four men suspected of being involved in the Indian Council of Medical Research ICMR data leakage case reported two months ago the four have been booked in a separate case of data brokering ThePrint has learntpp
ppAs reported by ThePrint earlier police had initially suspected the accused of trying to sell the leaked data involving ICMR and had arrested them based on inputs that they were allegedly advertising it on social media and looking for potential buyerspp
ppHowever the four have now been booked for data brokering in a separate case Delhi Police sources told ThePrintpp
ppThey have been booked in a separate case under Indian Penal Code section 420 cheating and sections of the Information Technology Act said a senior police officerppppDeputy commissioner of police Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations Hemant Tiwari added Investigation is on in the matterpp
ppMeanwhile sources in Delhi Police also told ThePrint that investigation into the ICMR case has been taken up by the Central Bureau of Investigation CBIpp
ppThePrint has reached the CBIs public relations officer PRO over email and Delhi Police PRO Kumar Gyanesh on calls and text messages for comment The report will be updated once a response is receivedpp
ppAlso read 67 crore people in 24 states targets of massive data theft Cyberabad Police arrest 1 probe dark web angleppppIn October USbased cyber security and intelligence agency Resecurity had claimed that personal identifiable information of about 815 crore Indians was leaked on the dark web On 9 October a threat actor going by the name pwn0001 posted a thread on Breach Forums brokering access to 815 million Indian Citizen Aadhaar Passport records it added in a blog postpp
ppResecurity also claimed that when its HUNTER HUMINT unit investigators established contact with the threat actor they found that the hackers were asking for 80000 to sell all of the leaked data This threat actor also claimed the stolen data was derived from Covid19 test records of Indians allegedly sourced from the ICMRpp
ppWe have retrieved personal data from these men that they were trying to sell This data is from various organisations How they got the data is being probed and the data is being analysed We suspect that there are other third parties involved the source addedpp
ppThe Delhi Police had taken suo motu cognisance of the alleged ICMR data leak and registered an FIRppppTalking about the four accused in the case the Delhi Police source quoted above said We have retrieved personal data from these men that they were trying to sell This data is from various organisations How they got the data is being probed and the data is being analysed We suspect that there are other third parties involvedpp
ppEdited by Poulomi Banerjeepp
ppAlso read Lacking modern security strategies India sees 28 jump in cost of data breaches in 2023pp
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ppNew Delhi Weeks after Delhi Police arrested four men suspected of being involved in the Indian Council of Medical Research ICMR data leakage case reported two months ago the four have been booked in a separate case of data brokering ThePrint has learntpp
ppAs reported by ThePrint earlier police had initially suspected the accused of trying to sell the leaked data involving ICMR and had arrested them based on inputs that they were allegedly advertising it on social media and looking for potential buyerspp
ppHowever the four have now been booked for data brokering in a separate case Delhi Police sources told ThePrintpp
ppThey have been booked in a separate case under Indian Penal Code section 420 cheating and sections of the Information Technology Act said a senior police officerppppDeputy commissioner of police Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations Hemant Tiwari added Investigation is on in the matterpp
ppMeanwhile sources in Delhi Police also told ThePrint that investigation into the ICMR case has been taken up by the Central Bureau of Investigation CBIpp
ppThePrint has reached the CBIs public relations officer PRO over email and Delhi Police PRO Kumar Gyanesh on calls and text messages for comment The report will be updated once a response is receivedpp
ppAlso read 67 crore people in 24 states targets of massive data theft Cyberabad Police arrest 1 probe dark web angleppppIn October USbased cyber security and intelligence agency Resecurity had claimed that personal identifiable information of about 815 crore Indians was leaked on the dark web On 9 October a threat actor going by the name pwn0001 posted a thread on Breach Forums brokering access to 815 million Indian Citizen Aadhaar Passport records it added in a blog postpp
ppResecurity also claimed that when its HUNTER HUMINT unit investigators established contact with the threat actor they found that the hackers were asking for 80000 to sell all of the leaked data This threat actor also claimed the stolen data was derived from Covid19 test records of Indians allegedly sourced from the ICMRpp
ppWe have retrieved personal data from these men that they were trying to sell This data is from various organisations How they got the data is being probed and the data is being analysed We suspect that there are other third parties involved the source addedpp
ppThe Delhi Police had taken suo motu cognisance of the alleged ICMR data leak and registered an FIRppppTalking about the four accused in the case the Delhi Police source quoted above said We have retrieved personal data from these men that they were trying to sell This data is from various organisations How they got the data is being probed and the data is being analysed We suspect that there are other third parties involvedpp
ppEdited by Poulomi Banerjeepp
ppAlso read Lacking modern security strategies India sees 28 jump in cost of data breaches in 2023pp
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