Man arrested for selling data of 14 lakh online shoppers

GREATER NOIDA: A 23-year-old man, Nandan Rao Patel, was arrested for allegedly stealing data of 14 lakh customers of several e-commerce sites in collusion with employees of the retail companies. Police said the accused allegedly sold the data of the customers to various sham call centres, who later used them to cheat people.
STF officers said they were flooded with complaints not only from online shoppers but also a bank, which reported data theft. The bank told police its customers were being cheated by fake call centres on the pretext of lucky draw contests or GST/ income tax registration.
The accused, an original resident of Bihar, had been living in a rented apartment in Amrapali Sapphire society in Sector 45. He is a final-year MBA student in Amity University and a cyber expert, police said.