Bengaluru
In what may be one of the biggest cyber frauds reported in Karnataka, a Bengaluru-based cryptocurrency exchange firm has reported that their wallets were hacked into and cryptocurrency worth ₹378.9 crore was stolen. Police have arrested an employee of the firm on suspicion that he was involved in the fraud.
Ballandur-based Neblio Technologies Pvt. Ltd. was hit by a hack on July 19. At 2:45 am, fraudsters hacked into the company’s cryptocurrency wallet and transferred 1 USDT (Tether) to an anonymous wallet. Hours later at 9:40 am, the hacker again transferred cryptocurrency worth $44 million (₹378.9 crore) to an unknown wallet and from there transferred it to several other wallets. The company has listed the addresses of these wallets in their complaint to the city police.
The complaint further said that following this an internal cyber security audit was carried out and they found that the laptop of one of the employees, Rahul Agarwal, was hacked. He was questioned and he reportedly confessed to have taken up a part time IT job and earned ₹15 Lakh over the past one year and that he has been using the company’s laptop for the part time job as well, in violation of norms laid down by the company.
