CEO Binny Bansal’s Email Account has Hacked? Flipkart Files Complaint With Bengaluru Cops

Admin 18-Mar-2016 10:46:07 Inothernews

CEO Binny Bansal’s Email Account has Hacked? Flipkart Files Complaint With Bengaluru Cops


Indian E-commerce giant Flipkart recently lodged a police complaint claiming that its CEO Binny Bansal's official email account was hacked, reports the Economic Times. As per a report, two emails were sent from the official account to Flipkart's Chief Financial Officer, Sanjay Baweja at 11.33am on March 1, asking to transfer $80,000. Baweja as per the report was taken aback by the nature of the emails. After he cross checked with Bansal, it was discovered that Bansal's email account was hacked. The cyber crime wing of the police has said the case is one of email spoofing. The messages according to them was sent from forged addresses. CID sources have reportedly informed Economic Times that the emails were sent from Hong Kong and Canada using a server in Russia.



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