Hyderabad: Police cracks Mahesh Bank hacking case

Hyderabad: Police Commissioner CV Anand on Wednesday stated that the police have cracked the Mahesh Bank hacking case. Addressing the media, CV Anand explained that the accused is apparently from Nigeria. Through a slide presentation, he said that the accused has sent fishing emails to the employees of Mahesh Bank. He said that two of the employees clicked on the email. CV Anand informed that how the hacker got the information of the bank and the hacker was continuously monitoring the transactions with the virus that he had put in the employees' laptops. CV Anand said that another group of Nigerians who are in Delhi is directed to follow the steps by the hacker.

He said that the hacking took place because the Mahesh Bank did not have any security software for the protection. On February 2, The Hyderabad police have arrested two Nigerians and a woman from Manipur in connection with Mahesh cooperative bank hacking case. The three people hacked into the bank servers and transferred Rs 12.9 crore from three main accounts to around 128 bank accounts all over India.

They were taken into custody from Bengaluru on Monday night and shifted to Hyderabad on Tuesday. The city crime police who took up the investigation identified many account holders who received the amount among them were three people from New Delhi. The police arrested them and brought them to Hyderabad.

Meanwhile, the special teams deployed for investigation went to different states after getting information about account holders to identify and question them. The police also found that some of the account holders who got the money do not have knowledge of the transactions or that an account exists of their name in the particular bank.

Earlier, the Hyderabad city police commissioner CV Anand said that the bank has no proper cyber security which resulted in the hackers giving an opportunity to siphon off the money. Of the Rs 12 crore transferred to various accounts, the city police managed to freeze Rs 3 crore.

The police also registered a case of negligence against the bank, terming that it is the minimum responsibility of the bank to provide proper security for the bank accounts when running such a huge bank.