Unknown persons use 11 SEBI ids to send emails, FIR registered

Mumbai: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has lodged a complaint against unknown persons for allegedly accessing the official email accounts of its 11 employees, sending 34 emails from them, and snoop at its confidential data.

A suspicious activity was first brought to the notice of Varunkumar Kishan Gopal, 31, who works in SEBI’s head office at Bandra-Kurla Complex in the IT department as assistant manager. According to cops, on May 23, 2022, Gopal received a complaint from ISD manager, Abhijit Chandrakant, one of the officers of SEBI. He suspected that his official email id was used by unknown persons, and emails were sent from it.

The police said when Kishan Gopal checked the disaster recovery site of SEBI, he learnt that the email ids of eleven officers were accessed by an unknown accused.