Two hackers held

MUMBAI, JULY 11. A court here has remanded two engineers to police custody till July 19 after they were arrested on charges of hacking the cyber crime cell site of the city police on July 5.

The accused, Pradeep Yadav, a marine engineer and Sunil Sabnis, a hardware engineer, had been carrying out their operations from an old garage located in the basement of an apartment at Shivaji Park in Central Mumbai, according to the Deputy Commissioner of Police incharge of the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell (CCIC), Mr. Manoj Lohia.

He said this is the first ever crime registered this year under the provisions of Information Technology Act 2000 in which cyber police website was hacked and detected within 48 hours. Hunt was on for two others, Mr. Lohia said today.

While Yadav stayed on the first floor of the same building, the duo had an elaborate network of nine computers divided between the garage and the flat. A search of the computer data revealed the hacked files - which were uploaded from the computer having identification ``onama'' onto CCIC, he said.

Similarly, the files revealed that members of the public had been allowed to access pornographic sites having images and texts that were vulgar and obscene in nature, he added.

- PTI

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