Yogesh K Porwar & Siddarath Sethia
The South Division cyber crime police have initiated a probe to track down a cyber crook who hacked the bank network through LAN and stole Rs.21.5 lakh from the ATM account through multiple transactions .
The crime committed between February to March last year,came to know when the newly taken over manager audited the account and found fraudulent transactions .
The complainant,Arif Ahmed Syed,manager with the bank of Maharastra checked with his predecessor, Hema Sundar Rao before approaching the police and filed a complaint.
In his complaint,Mr.Syed said that the accused has stole the confidential password which was accessed to only officials and hacked into the system by connecting the manager laptop through the LAN network .
The accused then manipulated the bank’s central switch to disconnect the ATM switch and transfer the money through multiple transactions using two debit cards .
The Bank officials during the audit recorded the details of the transactions and the South cyber crime police have written letter to the bank to provide details of the bank account and the suspect.
