AHMEDABAD: It's quite likely that a US citizen would have purchased latest mobile phones, superior-storage music players or other white goods without even knowing about it! You may be able to track down these goods anywhere in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad. This is what the city Crime Branch officials are busy doing these days.
The recent racket unearthed by Crime Branch has a 16-year-old Mumbai boy Ajay at the centrestage. He along with three other persons in Ahmedabad had hacked into an online shopping website and used credit card details of US citizens to make purchases.
"Officials of the online shopping website got suspicious after detecting what earlier seemed like a simple malfunction. They came to know that it was a computer IP address in Ahmedabad responsible for the illegal shopping.
However, they were not sure how big the scam could be. It turned out to be a major hacking and illegal data transfer case in the state. We have now got valuable information about the network of hackers in the country," said a Crime Branch official investigating the case.
Interrogating the accused seems to have borne fruits as the police are now armed with various contacts from Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad. Officials believe that it can be the key to solve many cases of credit card fraud and incidents of hacking.
"As the websites are on public domain, anyone can access them. When there are paid member forums, many a times four to five hackers use the same user name and password and later distribute the fees, which is no more than 50 to 75 USD per month. Similarly, Shahid Khan and Haadi Ghoghai of Ahmedabad were given the id and password by Ajay," said a police official.
The official added that there are various online communities that help the hackers and budding hackers provide a meeting place. However, the members used pseudo-names to hide their identity. Ajay, too, had two social networking ids that he wiped out just two months back. They are literally impossible to track online.
"We are now on the trail of bigger fishes. It's quite likely that these communities work as communication channel between the underworld of hacking. These students are using their skills for the wrong cause. We also got to know that Ajay's contact to hacking world starts from another 19-year-old teenager from Chennai, but it would be too early to reveal anything about him at this stage," said the official.
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