Haryana hacker breaches Ahmedabad travel agent’s website; cons him of ₹7.35 lakh

The Ahmedabad cyber crime team has nabbed a hacker from Haryana today. Amar Jagdish Nayak is accused of hacking a travel agent’s website and making ₹7.35 lakh out of it.

Nayak hacked the website of a travel company’s agent and made hotel-flight bookings at minimal rates on it, and later sold those bookings off to buyers at market rates and made hefty profits.

Made bookings for a minimal amount, only to sell them off at market rates

Nayak, a hacker from Haryana, committed fraud by hacking into the website of a travel company’s agent and making hotel-flight bookings without paying the actual amounts.

He breached the security of such vulnerable websites and installed bugs in them, which allowed him to alter the payment process at his will.

Then Nayak sold off these bookings to his customers and made nearly ₹7.35 lakh through this fraudulent technique.

The cyber crime department is also on the lookout for people who booked hotel-flight tickets through the hacker.

They also seized many devices through which Nayak carried out his hacking.

Learned this hacking method through videos online 

During the investigation, it was found that Nayak has finished his education till high school and learned hacking as a hobby by watching YouTube tutorials.

The 21-year-old had been engaged in hacking for one and a half years and has made many insecure and vulnerable websites his prey by hacking into them.

A history-sheeter, Nayak is accused of eve teasing and fraud in Haryana

The young hacker has a history of criminal activities to his name. Nayak has been booked before for harassment and fraud.

A while ago, the accused had travelled to Delhi and made a hotel booking through his illicit hacking technique. However, he  had to spend his night on the footpath instead after the hotel owner had cancelled his booking on suspicious grounds. His mobile phone was also stolen in this incident.

Although he had stopped the illegal business  for a while after this, he later resumed them.

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