Cyber crime Bhopal police has nabbed a 26-year-old man from Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh who was involved in hacking facebook profile of his friend and sending messages and making video calls to friends and family members of the victim.
Police nabbed Praveen Kapoor of Jhansi who hacked his friend’s facebook profile and posted messages and made video calls through the hacked facebook profile.
The complainant Rahul Jain of Bhopal lodged a complaint of hacking his facebook profile ‘Rahul Jain’ was hacked and messages were send and video calls were made to his family members through the facebook profile.
Based on the complaint the police registered a case under section 43 (A) (F), 66, 66 (C), 66 (D) of the IT Act and narrowed down to one of victim’s friend in Jhansi Uttar Pradesh.
Later the friend was identified as Praveen Kapoor who used to work with private firm.
The accused told the police that he sent a Phishing link to his friend Rahul Jain over WhatsApp and as soon as Jain opened the link accused got username and password of face book.
Accused told the police that he obtained the link from a website which he used to hack Rahul’s facbook profile.
Police have started to investigate for the website which was used by the accused.
The accused after completing his BE in Computer Science started to work with a private firm.
He confessed that to tease his friend he hacked his face book. Police would investigate other victims who have been targeted by the accused.