The cyber crime police are searching for some hackers who stole ₹3.6 crore from a well-known American multinational financial services corporation in two days. The money was wired out of the company in 7,522 transactions between September 2 and September 4.
A member of the legal team of the company filed a complaint with the police on Wednesday after staff discovered the online fraud.
“Between 02-09-2019 and 04-09-2019, some unknown persons hacked the company’s BIN,” said the police. A BIN, or bank identification number, is the initial four to six numbers on a credit card and is unique to an institution.
The fraud came to light when several customers raised a complaint. The company’s staff conducted a probe, which revealed the fraud.
The police have taken up a case under cheating and also under various sections of the IT Act. “The illegal transactions were made though payment gateways,” said police officials who have sought records of the transactions to track down accounts that the money was wired to.
