Cyberabad Police has arrested a person involved in committing theft, procuring, holding and selling of personal and confidential data of 66.9 crore individuals and organisations and of 24 states and 08 metropolitan cities. The accused is found possessing data of students of Byjus Vedantu organisations.
Also, he possesses the data of 1.84 lakh cab users of 08 metro cities and data of 4.5 lakh salaried employees of 06 cities and Gujarat state. Further the accused holds consumer / customer data of major organisations like GST (Pan India), RTO (Pan India), Amazon, Netflix, Youtube, Paytm, Phonepe, Big Basket, BookMyShow, Instagram, Zomato,
Policy Bazar, Upstox, etc.
The accused person is found selling personal and confidential data of about 66.9 crore individuals and organisations maintained in 104 categories.
This includes 51.9 crores data of individuals and organisations of 24 states and 8 cities maintained in 44 categories.
Some of the important data held by the accused includes the data of defence personnel; government employees; PAN card holders; students data of 9 th , 10 th , 11 & 12 th 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 etc.
In this case, accused person was operating through a website “InspireWebz” at Faridabad, Haryana and selling database to the clients through cloud drive links.
The accused is holding data of 4.5 Lakh salaried employees of 06 metropolitan cities and Gujarat state.
