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Hyderabad, April 1 (). Cyberabad Police has busted the country’s biggest data theft racket. Police has arrested a man for allegedly stealing, possessing and selling personal and confidential data of 66.9 crore individuals and private organizations from 24 states and 8 metros.
Apart from data related to students of Byjus and Vedantu organizations, the accused had data related to 1.84 lakh cab users spread across 8 metro cities, 6 cities and 4.5 lakh salaried employees in the state of Gujarat. Accused Vinay Bhardwaj had set up an office in Faridabad, Haryana and collected the database from Aamer Sohail and Madan Gopal.
He used to promote social media platforms to resell the data to fraudsters for profit. Police said that the accused had access to the consumer/s of major organizations like GST (Pan India), RTO (Pan India), Amazon, Netflix, YouTube, Paytm, PhonePe, Big Basket, Book My Show, Instagram, Zomato, Policy Bazaar, Upstox. There is also customer data.
The accused persons were found to be selling personal and confidential data of approximately 66.9 crore individuals and organizations placed in 104 categories. It contains data of 519 million individuals and organizations from 24 states and 8 cities, grouped into 44 categories.
Some of the important data possessed by the accused include defense personnel, government employees, PAN card holders, students of class 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th, senior citizens, electricity consumers of Delhi, D-mat account holders, various individuals, NEET students, rich individuals, insurance holders. , including data and mobile numbers of credit card and debit card holders.
Police officials said the accused person was working in Faridabad, Haryana through a website InspireWebz and was selling databases to customers through cloud drive links.
Police seized two mobile phones and two laptops and 135 categories of data containing sensitive information of government, private organizations and individuals.
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