The Cyber Crime Cell of Noida Police have arrested owner of an IT company for allegedly stealing software and data of the company, where he was previously employed and selling it at half price. According to the police, Chandan Mishra, a permanent resident of Bihar and currently residing in Ghaziabad was arrested on Sunday for stealing data of a private IT company at Sector 10, where he used to work earlier.
“We got a complaint from Vipin Tyagi, who owns the IT company — J B System, at Sector 10 — that two software of the company had been stolen and are being sold to their existing customers at a cheaper rate. After investigation, we found involvement of Chandan Mishra, who used to work for the company for the past three years and left the company in 2012 and started his own company. It was found he was selling the same software under a new brand name to the software companies in Delhi-NCR,” said a senior police officer investigating the case.
Mishra was arrested and his laptop was seized and scanned by the cyber crime cell.
“Chandan was selling pay-roll and attendance software at half price. He had sold software to various companies in Delhi-NCR region. We are also contacting the company to check if they had knowledge that they were buying stolen software,” said the officer. Mishra has been booked under Section 66 of IT act.