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Hackers Vs. Crackers
Common Mans Perspective
The complainant approached the police stating that she had been receiving obscene
and pornographic material at her e-mail address and mobile phone. She stated that
this person appeared to know a lot about her and her family and believed that her e-
mail account had been hacked.
Investigation
The investigating team using a different e-mail ID tried to chat with the accused
using the complainants e-mail ID. Subsequently the investigating team was able to
identify the IP address of the computer system being used and it was tracked to an
organization in Delhi.
The investigating team visited the company and through its server logs was able to
identify the system from which the obscene material was sent. Using forensic disk
imaging and analysis tools the e-mails were retrieved from the system. The residence
of the accused was located and the hard disk of his personal computer was
seized. On the basis of the evidence gathered the accused was arrested.
According to the police, the accused tried to get call details of 59 officials. He
finally got details of 26 officials and demanded Rs1 crore from the company
for not disclosing it.
Ankit Srivastava, 29, a PhD student, was arrested from his Gaziabad
residence and produced before a city court which remanded him to seven
days of police custody.
Ankit alleged that Airtels complaint against him was a counter move, after
he had lodged an FIR against the company with Senior Superintendent of
Police Ghaziabad on June 21 claiming that the companys system and the
data of its subscribers, was not safe.
While investigating the recent theft, the company learned that its
Web site had previously been hacked
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Amarjit & Associates, New Delhi
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