Cyberabad cops arrest man for holding, selling data of 67 crore individuals
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Sensitive information on students enrolled with Byju's and Vedantu, users of financial apps such as Paytm, Phonepe and CRED; users of Amazon, Netflix, YouTube, Instagram, Zomato and others were found in the accused's database, which he put up for sale, police said.
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Cyberabad Police apprehended a gang involved in committing theft, procuring and selling of sensitive and confidential data of the government and important organisations and also personal and confidential data of 16.8 crore citizens.
The complainant, a resident of Charkop in Kandivali, told the police that three persons resigned from his Dahisar-based firm between Jan 2020 to Oct 2022.