PUNE: The Sinhagad Road police have started a probe into cyber crooks hacking into the server of a finance and e-payments company between April and July last year and securing the password of its account to siphon off Rs1.5 crore.
A formal FIR relating to the incident was registered on Tuesday after the Pune cyber police did an initial verification of the company’s complaint application. “We are probing the matter,”said senior inspector Devidas Gheware of the Sinhagad Road police.
A senior officer from the company, who did not wish to be named, said, “Our company started as a software firm in 2013. In July 2019, we ventured into UPI and other application-based modes of money transfers. Our server is located at our office near Navale bridge. During lockdown, all the employees were working from home and the server was under observation from a remote location. The server is linked to the data centres and few bank accounts and e-wallet services provided by us.”
Police registered a case for offences punishable under relevant sections of the IT Act.