WhatsApp variety of OCAC CEO hacked: Nigerian nationwide arrested

Bhubaneswar: In a improvement concerning the OCAC CEO and extra secretary of the state Electronics and Information Technology (E&IT) division Manoj Kumar Pattnaik’s WhatsApp quantity hacking case, Delhi police has arrested a Nigerian nationwide from New Delhi, knowledgeable Odisha Additional Director General (ADG) Crime Branch Sanjeeb Panda. He has been recognized as Maurice.
Reportedly, he has been arrested from a rented home in Delhi following which a number of associated info have been extracted from him concerning related cyber crimes. Maurice was already declared as most wished by Delhi police.
The arrested accused Maurice has hyperlink to a different Nigerian hackers in Bangalore. It is learnt that the Nigerian nationwide cyber criminals initially hacked one other official’s WhatsApp account adopted by Pattnaik’s account. The cyber criminals function their unlawful hacking system mainly from Bangalore and Delhi.
The Nigerian hacker of Bangalore has been declared as most wished for each Odisha and Delhi officers.
It is pertinent to say {that a} related incident of cyber crime happened in New Delhi on November 1 the place the Nigerian fraudsters used to ship malicious hyperlinks following which they had been capable of take over that WhatsApp management of the actual consumer. The primary accused on this case, recognized as Chimelan Emaluen Anuetalu, was arrested earlier. He was allegedly the mastermind behind all such cyber crimes.
Odisha Crime Branch is in fixed contact with Delhi and Bangalore police groups with a view to crack down the cyber crime, added ADG Sanjeeb Panda.
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