22-year-old student held for ‘hacking GTU portal, stealing and leaking data’

A 22-year-old student from Vadodara was arrested for allegedly hacking the software of Gujarat Technical University (GTU) and stealing data of as many as 1,275 students and uploading it on different websites.

According to officials of Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Cell, the student, who is pursuing his eighth semester (fourth year) in Electrical Engineering from a private college affiliated to GTU, had hacked the GTU software used as pre-trial for students to register themselves for the online examination with their personal details.

“The accused student had learned hacking as part of his hobby and he gained access to the data of the students which was gathered in the software system of GTU as part of a pre-trial run before the online exam.