‘Over 100 cases since 2017 filed under IT Act’
Delhi Police added that 17 people have been arrested in these cases
NEW DELHI: Hacking official websites of institutions and threatening people on social media has become a new trend among criminals, who sometimes even dodge investigators by changing the Internet Protocol address (IP address) they use for commiting the act. Police data accessed by
Millennium Post has revealing that between January 2017 and April 2018, that they have registered 110 cases under the Information Technology (IT) Act.
“Last year, the cases were 84 and so far this year, we have 26,” said a police official.
The data also shows that a mere 17 of these 110 cases have been. “We also arrested 17 persons in this regard,” he said.
During investigation of any cyber crime complaint, police always ask the concerned social media website to give the IP address of the social media account involved in the crime. In some cases, cops also ask details from telecom operators to provide them information about the IP address. The operators then provide the cops with the details, which are later investigated and the accused is eventually zeroed in on.
There are also cases of websites being defaced by some hackers, with cyber experts claiming that this is usually done to steal important and confidential data.
Cyber expert Kislay Chaudhary told Millennium Post that one can easily find techniques to hack websites on the internet. “We have found in some cases websites are hacked just for defacement. no data is stolen,” said Chaudhary.
Recently, the website of Jamia Millia Islamia became the latest victim of hacking. The website had a black background and a message: “Happy Birthday POOJA” written on it, signed by a certain “Your Love”.
Recently, the Special Cell of Delhi Police had arrested two Kashmiri youth from Punjab, who reportedly were pro-pakistani hackers and were in touch with several Pakistan based anti-indian hackers.
The two were part of a antiIndia hacking group ‘Team Hackers Third Eye’, which reportedly hacked more than 500 Indian websites. They were found to have hacked and defaced mnay Indian government websites and posted propakistan messages.
DCP (Special Cell) Pramod Singh Kushwah had claimed that as per their online activities and initial findings, the two youth were found to have hacked more than 500 Indian websites.