The Cyberabad police have formed special teams to nab two suspects who allegedly helped Vinay Bhardwaj in obtaining data of around 66.90 crore individuals across the country
This is an attack on the privacy and security of Indians and we do not accept it at all. Centre should immediately clarify this matter, said Jairam Ramesh
Seven persons were arrested even as more persons are likely to be rounded up for allegedly obtaining personal and sensitive database of nearly 16.8 crore citizens including defence personnel, students and others, fraudulently
The investigators suspect the mobile number database of 3 crore individuals was leaked from telecom service providers and which could be used for committing various crimes
A few years ago the maximum cyber crime complaints were of money siphoning using bank OTP and most of the crimes were committed by people from Jamtara, that can be called basic crime in today's cyber crime world.
Underlining the need of such directive, a confidential report of National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) says that India is among top three countries in the world facing cyber-attacks.