Nainital Bank
Earlier armed criminals robbed banks, now fraudsters and bank server hackers are stealing money from home. One such case happened at The Nainital Bank in Sector 62, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, adjacent to the national capital. Fraudsters tampered with this bank’s servers and hacked the RTGS (Real Time Gross Settlement System). After this the miscreants transferred about 16 crore 1 lakh 3 thousand rupees to his account several times.
This was revealed during the reconciliation of the bank’s balance sheet. After this, the bank’s IT Manager Sumit Srivastava has filed a case at the Cyber Crime Police Station in Noida. Apart from this, the bank has also requested CERT-In (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team) to investigate the matter. IT manager Sumit Kumar Srivastava, in a complaint to the Noida police, said that the balance sheets of the RTGS accounts were reconciled on June 17 last month. Meanwhile, it was found that there is a difference of 36 crore 9 lakh 4 thousand 20 rupees in the original record.
Incident of server tampering
An investigation was conducted considering the seriousness of the matter. In which some suspicious activities were identified in the bank’s servers. An initial investigation suspected that the amount did not match due to a glitch in the system line, but when the RBI system was reviewed on June 20, it was found that 84 suspicious transactions had taken place. According to the IT manager, all these transactions took place between June 17 and 21. Money has been withdrawn from the account through RTGS settlement.
Police registered a case
This amount has been transferred to different accounts of many banks. After this revelation, all those bank accounts have been frozen and the account holders have been asked to undergo KYC. Under this process the bank has recovered Rs 69 crore 49 thousand 960, but the defrauded amount of Rs 16 crore 1 lakh 83 thousand 261 has not been recovered yet. According to ACP Vivek Ranjan Rai, Noida Cyber Crime Wing, a case has been registered against unknown fraudsters on the complaint of the bank management. The police are trying to trace the IP addresses of the fraudsters’ computers to the crooks. The police have found some dumps of miscreants. The police are investigating the matter.
