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Couple booked for hacking MNC's password, siphoning off funds

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Press Trust of India Chandigarh
A couple has been booked for allegedly siphoning off funds from a multinational company in Gurgaon by means of hacking UserIDs and passwords of its employees, police said today.

Acting on a complaint by an Air Ticketing firm, the Haryana police today busted a case of fraud, where the ex-employees of a multinational company in Gurgaon used to transfer the money meant for offering discount, to the account of one of the accused by hacking the company's password.

"Investigations revealed that the company used to offer discounts to those customers who would purchase air tickets through the company on a regular basis. The company used to offer some discount on tickets to customers and some amount used to be deposited in company's account through a card. But the company found that it was loosing huge sums of money," police spokesman said.
 

Bableen was nabbed from her house at Kirti Nagar area in New Delhi by Gurgaon police, he said, adding that Rs 50,000 was recovered from her.

Varun, the husband who allegedly transfered the company's money illegally to his wife's account, is on the run and efforts are on to nab him, police said.

The accused woman was presented before the court in Gurgaon and has been remanded to police custody, they added.

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First Published: May 30 2015 | 8:57 PM IST

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