PUNE: The Airport police are investigating a menace and extortion case in opposition to an e-mail sender for issuing mail threats to senior officers of a non-public finance firm headquartered in Pune, stating he/she is going to delete the agency’s information by hacking into its database.
The e-mail sender demanded extortion of 11.63 crore cash of a cryptocurrency and threatened to delete the info if it wasn’t paid.
In keeping with the police, the corporate officers had obtained the mail on November 28, 2021, and the agency instantly safeguarded its information. One of many managers of the corporate (aged 32) approached the Airport police on Friday and lodged a grievance in opposition to the unidentified menace e-mail sender.
TOI on Saturday night contacted a senior officer with the corporate however he stated, “I’m not authorised to talk with the media.”
Senior police inspector Bharat Jadhav of the Airport police stated, “The highest bosses of the finance firm on November 28, 2021, obtained the e-mail from the identical sender. We suspect a hacker might have despatched the e-mail.”
Jadhav stated, “We’re probing into how emails of all of the senior officers of the corporate have been compromised.”
“It’s a case of menace and try to extortion. The corporate officers didn’t switch any cryptocurrency cash to the suspect,” he stated, refusing to disclose particulars of the e-mail to TOI.
“We obtained the grievance on Friday and we have now determined to verify from the place (the server) the e-mail was despatched to the corporate officers. It’s, nonetheless, suspected that the e-mail has been despatched after routing it from a number of servers,” a senior police officer stated. In keeping with the police, it is likely one of the rarest instances during which the hacker has demanded extortion in cryptocurrency.
The e-mail sender demanded extortion of 11.63 crore cash of a cryptocurrency and threatened to delete the info if it wasn’t paid.
In keeping with the police, the corporate officers had obtained the mail on November 28, 2021, and the agency instantly safeguarded its information. One of many managers of the corporate (aged 32) approached the Airport police on Friday and lodged a grievance in opposition to the unidentified menace e-mail sender.
TOI on Saturday night contacted a senior officer with the corporate however he stated, “I’m not authorised to talk with the media.”
Senior police inspector Bharat Jadhav of the Airport police stated, “The highest bosses of the finance firm on November 28, 2021, obtained the e-mail from the identical sender. We suspect a hacker might have despatched the e-mail.”
Jadhav stated, “We’re probing into how emails of all of the senior officers of the corporate have been compromised.”
“It’s a case of menace and try to extortion. The corporate officers didn’t switch any cryptocurrency cash to the suspect,” he stated, refusing to disclose particulars of the e-mail to TOI.
“We obtained the grievance on Friday and we have now determined to verify from the place (the server) the e-mail was despatched to the corporate officers. It’s, nonetheless, suspected that the e-mail has been despatched after routing it from a number of servers,” a senior police officer stated. In keeping with the police, it is likely one of the rarest instances during which the hacker has demanded extortion in cryptocurrency.
