The Cyberabad Police arrested one person who procured and sold personal and confidential data of 66.9 crore people. He also sold authentic data of many organisations in 104 categories across 24 states ad 8 metropolitan cities of the country. He was found possessing data of students of Byjus and Vedantu organisations.
Data of defence personnel, students leaked
The data of customers from Amazon, Netflix, Youtube, Paytm, Phonepe, Big Basket, BookMyShow, Instagram, Zomato, Policy Bazar, Upstox, etc was also stolen,
“Some of the important data held by the accused includes the data of defence personnel, government employees, PAN card holders, students data of 9th, 10th, 11 & 12th standard, senior citizens. Delhi electricity consumers, D-MAT account holders, mobile numbers of various individuals, NEET students, high net worth individuals, insurance holders, credit card and debit card holders,” the Cyberabad Police said.
Operated through InspireWebZ
The accused has been identifies as Vinay Bhardwaj who was operating through a website through InspireWebZ rom Faridabad.
“Data of NEET students with their names, father’s name, mobile number and their residence was also found with these accused. PAN Card database containing sensitive information on income, email ids, phone numbers, address etc was also found. Data of Government employees containing information on their name, mobile number, category, date of birth etc was also found,” the police said.
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