Arun 795 Report post Posted July 1, 2006 28 June, 2006, Press Trust of India New Delhi: A youth was arrested on charges of hacking Airtel's computer system and accessing the bill details of as many as 26 high-profile customers and demanding Rs one crore from the telecom major for not making it public. Besides accessing their details, Ankit K Srivastava also tried to extract bill information about 59 others, including several senior police and government officials, police said today. The culprit had also tried to access call details of mobile numbers belonging to Police Commissioner K.K. Paul, Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Karnal Singh, and some other officers of the Joint Commissioner rank. Srivastava, a resident of Shipra Sun City, Ghaziabad, was arrested last evening by Special Cell of the Delhi Police after the telecom company informed the police about it, Joint Commissioner (Special Cell) Karnal Singh told PTI here. The accused was produced before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjeev Jain, who sent him to seven days police custody holding that the matter was of "sensitive and of technical nature." He was booked under Section 66 of Information Technology Act, which carries a punishment of three years imprisonment and a fine of Rs two lakh. Prosecution lawyer Rajiv Mohan said Srivastava demanded Rs one crore from Airtel and threatened to make the details public if his demands were not met. The Special Cell traced the alleged offender to his Indira Puram flat in Ghaziabad where he lived along with his brother, who is an employee with an Indian computer firm. His father is Joint Commissioner in the Sales Tax Department in Agra. Two of his relatives are senior Indian Police Service officers. The police claim to have recovered a compact disc containing the stolen call details from Ankit. They have also seized his laptop. Initial probe revealed that the hacker tried to obtain the details of about 60 phones, but could manage to extract data pertaining to just over two-dozen phones. He was produced on Tuesday in the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate who remanded him to seven-day police custody. The police are probing if Ankit had hacked into the data at anybody's instigation. They are trying to find out whether any media group had conducted a sting operation. "Some more arrests in the case are likely," said a senior police officer. He said relevant section under the Information Technology Act would be added to the case. Meanwhile, the accused youth's lawyer D S Dalal said his client accidentally stumbled upon the bill details of other customers while he was trying to access information about his phone bill. He claimed that Srivastava was trying to bring the "loopholes" in the computer system to the notice of company authorities and had even lodged a complaint with the Ghaziabad police on June 22. AirTel Hacker case: Sahara journalist questioned Express India - June 29, 2006 New Delhi: In another twist to the AirTel "hacking" case lodged against Ankit Srivastava, a Sahara television journalist today told Delhi Police that the 26-year-old had contacted his channel 20 days ago for airing a news report about the loopholes in the Airtel website. The journalist, Ashok Chaturvedi, told Delhi Police the story could not be aired as Airtel had not come up with a definitive reply. “We shot the entire process of the loopholes in the Airtel website as demonstrated by Ankit in our studio in the first week of June. In fact, we asked Ankit to get details of the numbers of some high-profile people to make the news report more stronger," Chaturvedi told Newsline after emerging from a three-hour interrogation at the Special Cell's Lodhi Road office today. Chaturvedi said he told the cops: "We contacted Airtel officials for their version and Airtel officials also visited our office but asked for time. We were in touch daily with Airtel (ever) since." Airtel went to the Special Cell on June 24 with a complaint against Ankit. A case of hacking under the IT Act as well as extortion was lodged the same day as Airtel alleged in the FIR that Ankit had been repeatedly demanding Rs 1 crore from the company for not going public. Newsline reported yesterday that Ankit, son of the Agra Sales Tax Joint Commissioner, had also approached the Ghaziabad SSP Piyush Mordia as early as May 30 with a complaint against Airtel, and had demonstrated the loophole to the SSP. Ankit had attached to the complaint the entire phone details of all 26 numbers he had downloaded exploiting the website’s loopholes. Mordia said Ankit did this "in good faith and said he would file a consumer case against Airtel". On being asked if they were in "regular contact" with Sahara television, Airtel issued an official statement saying: "We have placed the facts of matter with the investigating authorities and are co-operating with them to ensure that a cyber crime such as this is controlled. As the matter is under investigation, it will not be appropriate for us to comment further." Twist in the tale: What Ashok Chaturvedi told Delhi Police: * We shot the entire process of the loopholes in the Airtel website as demonstrated by Ankit in our studio in the first week of June * Asked Ankit to get details of the numbers of some high-profile people to make news report stronger * Story could not be aired as Airtel had not come up with a definitive reply Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
linuxguy 0 Report post Posted July 1, 2006 stupidity... No.1 Hes not a hacker No.2 He should've gone on air instead of going to the stupid police Instead of getting arrested, he would would've gotten fame Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
