The police also found consumer/customer data of major organisations like GST (pan-India), RTO (pan-India), Amazon, Netflix, YouTube, Paytm, PhonePe, Big Basket, BookMyShow, Instagram, Zomato, Policybazaar, Upstox, etc, from his possession. The database comprised illegally obtained records of 18 lakh students from Byju’s and Vedantu, 1.84 lakh records for cab users, and 4.5 lakh records for employees of six metropolitan cities and Gujarat state. “Data is new age currency and some fraudsters have derived plans to make quick bucks by selling the sensitive data,” he said. Two mobile phones and two laptops seized from him are being examined and police have started reaching out to companies whose data have been stolen. The police found that Bhardwaj used to promote social media platforms to resell the data to fraudsters for profits.Ī First Information Report ( FIR) was registered, invoking sections 409, 413, and 420 of the Indian Penal Code and sections 66C, 43A, and 72A of the IT Act. The DCP said Bhardwaj opened an office in Faridabad and operated through a website ‘InspireWebz’ to sell databases saved on the cloud to his clients through cloud drive links.
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