Man held for stealing bank password
Hyderabad, Dec. 19: The cyber crime police of the CID on Saturday arrested a cyber café employee who stole the bank transaction passwords of a woman and used it to buy a mobile phone worth Rs 30,600 online.
V. Vijayakumar, 23, a resident of Boduppal and native of Kaikalur in Krishna district, used ‘key loggers’ software to steal passwords from computers in S&S Cyber Cafe of Ramnagar where he was working.
Cyber cops got into the act after Mr R. Venkataramana Rao, a senior software engineer of Accenture in the city, complained that his sister, Ms Rama Kalpana’s HDFC bank account password had been stolen and had been misused.
A team led by inspector B. Ravi Kumar Reddy netted Vijayakumar by tracking down the international mobile equipment identification number of the phone which he purchased.
Vijayakumar, who has a diploma in computer applications, also did a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer course and a course on hacking in 2008 before joining the cyber cafe. He confessed to the police that he had installed the key logger software ‘Elite’ in four computers in the cyber cafe.
Whenever a customer used the computer every keystroke including usernames and passwords were recorded and sent to an email id which he had created (Johnson.keys@gmail.com). Ms Rama had an account at HDFC and her friend, Mr D. Santosh, made a transaction using at S&S Cyber Cafe on November 29.
After stealing the relevant data, Vijayakumar bought a cellphone by making an online payment on December 3 to Univercell Mobile Vendor at Narayanaguda. He later sold the mobile to Shanawaz Zubair, a mobile vendor at Jagadish Market. Police also arrested Zubair.
Police warned people to be cautious while carrying out internet transactions from cyber cafes.
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Not only in cybercafes but even in some PSU banks such things take place at times; no, keylogger tools are not used but simply some memory trick is deployed; some asst. managers & deputy managers are asked by some bank staff many times a day to type their bank password to clear some transactions; these officers go to the female/male staff’s table and enter their password on her/his PC; when the officer entered his password, one female staff used to remember just one stroke a day done by the dy.manager; she would note it down somewhere; in a week or ten days she could thus note down stealthily the seven word or ten word password of her boss in the bank; and then this way she accessed some accounts and withdrew large sums of money; eventually she was caught & when interrogated, she disclosed the modus operandi deployed to gain access to her boss’s password. The senior banks officers must take a lesson or two and devise ways & means to avoid such mistakes on their part.
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