The cyber crime wing of the Criminal Investigation Department has registered a case against a hardware engineer who, after being fired from his job, allegedly uploaded confidential data belonging to a leading telecom company online.
The accused, H.S. Kiran Kumar, worked as an installation manager at TNL, which provides hardware solutions to Airtel, said the police. In a complaint filed by P. Jain, the contract of Kiran Kumar had been terminated and he was serving his notice period.
Last Friday, Kumar allegedly accessed 61 confidential files from the parent company without authorisation and uploaded it in the public domain. “The complainant said that the files contain confidential and critical information about TNL and Airtel,” said the police.
Airtel officials said that the data leak had nothing to do with information about customers but was about network quality.
All the critical information, including customers’ data, is safe with the parent company where the vendor company has no access, the officials clarified .
Based on the complaint, the cyber wing registered a case against Kiran Kumar under various sections of the Information Technology Act and are trying to track him down.
