50-year-old CA arrested for hacking schoolgirl’s FB account

Surat: The cyber crime police station on Monday arrested a 50-year-old man chartered accountant practising in Bhavnagar for allegedly hacking an 18-year-old school girl’s Facebook account and sending objectionable messages to people known to her from the account.
Police investigation revealed that the accused CA, Keyur Parekh, had been behaving abnormally for the last two years.
Parekh was booked for defamation under Indian Penal Code and sections of Information Technology Act, but released on bail due to his age and health issues.
The girl’s father, who lodged the complaint, alleged that some person had hacked her account of the girl since October 2019 and has been sending objectionable messages to her friends. He continued sending the messages till June.
“Parekh is a qualified CA and practices in Bhavnagar. He had developed some issues due to which he resorted to such abnormal activity for the past two years. He enjoyed sending vulgar messages,” said a police officer.
Parekh’s wife died a few years ago and his children live in Bhavnagar.
Police investigation revealed that he could hack the girl’s account due to weak password. Though he is not an IT expert, he came across the girl’s profile page after and decided to hack it.