A Grand Theft From Netflix, Paytm, Amazon: What Was Stolen?

Hyderabad: On April 1, the Cyberabad Police in Hyderabad made arrests in cybercrime involving the stealing, holding, and selling of confidential data of 66.9 crore individuals.

The accused was operating through a website called ‘InspireWebz’ in Haryana’s Faridabad. A database was sold to clients. The data involved belonged to organizations like Byjus and Vedantu. Major organizations like GST, Netflix, Amazon, and PhonePe’s data was also compromised.

Cyberabad Police ACP Shyam Babu said a person online was shocked to see his personal information on an open-source website. Ten days before this, the police had detained and questioned 16 suspects in a case involving a similar data theft.

Moreover, the accused, Vinay Bharadwaj also possessed personal data of 1.26 lakh NRIs and 5 lakh High Net Worth Individuals (HNI).

The category with the highest collected database was that of domain 'whois', accounting for 3.47 crore databases.