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146 crore blown up of UP Co-operative Bank by hacking the server,
Uttar Pradesh Cooperative ‘Sahkari’ Bank Lucknow’s server hacked
Lucknow. Police have arrested five accused, including two masterminds of an organized gang of cyber criminals who have cheated Rs 146 crore by hacking the server of Uttar Pradesh Co-operative ‘Sahkari’ Bank Limited, Headquarters Lucknow. Action has been given in this matter from STF Headquarters on Tuesday. According to the statement, the accused hacked the servers of Uttar Pradesh Co-operative Bank Ltd., Headquarters, Lucknow, by purchasing three hackers, six devices, three key, lager software and with the help of three bank officials, at a cost of Rs 1 crore in 18 months. Misappropriation of Rs.
According to the statement, the STF has arrested two conspirators in this case, Section Officer Ram Raj ‘Fatehpur’ and Dhruv Kumar Srivastava, a resident of Shahjahanpur, and Karamveer Singh, Assistant Manager of Cooperative Bank, Sitapur, Akash Kumar of Etah Kanpur and Aurangabad district of Bihar. K Bhupendra Singh was arrested on Monday night from near Bans Mandi of Polytechnic crossroads of Lucknow. All the accused currently live in different areas of Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh.
According to the statement, the police have recovered several documents including bank ID cards, 25 sets Aadhar cards, 25 sets residence certificates, seven ATM cards from their possession. According to the STF, Ajay Kumar Tripathi, Assistant General Manager, Uttar Pradesh Co-operative Bank Headquarters, had lodged an FIR on October 16, 2022, at the Cyber Crime Police Station here, alleging that eight transactions were done through seven accounts of district cooperative banks. Rs 146 crore has been transferred through RTGS in a manner
After the registration of the FIR, investigation was started under the leadership of Senior Superintendent of Police Vishal Vikram Singh, in-charge of STF, which revealed that the device and key lager had been hacked by hacking the server of UP Co-operative Bank Limited, Headquarters MG Marg, Hazratganj, Lucknow. The login and password of the ID of the bank manager and cashier were obtained from. Rs 146 crore has been transferred through RTGS from remote axis to the accounts of ICICI and HDFC Bank of Bhumi Sagar Group of Companies.
According to the statement of the STF, after this, the team, through technical experts and informers, arrested five accused including two master minds of the gang of cybercriminals near Bansmandi Tirahe on Monday night. In the interrogation of the STF team, accused conspirator Dhruv Kumar Srivastava said, ‘I came to Lucknow with my friend in May 2021 and then I met Akash Kumar and through Akash we met a contractor.’
Srivastava said during interrogation, ‘The contractor told that I have a hacker and if we together set up any officer of the bank, then by taking the bank’s system on the remote axis, we will transfer about three hundred crore rupees to our fake accounts. . After this, through Bhupendra Singh, we had a meeting with Karmaveer Singh, assistant manager of the cooperative bank. Then the hacker prepared a device and even after eight attempts, there was no success. After this, we met Ram Raj, the section officer posted in the Home Department in Lok Bhavan, in the meantime and with his cooperation, it was successful.
The accused also told the STF team during interrogation that in this work, they spent about one crore rupees from booking hotels to other items. In the statement of the STF, it has been said that efforts are being made to arrest other members of the gang in the case.
