Bank accounts hacked with fingerprint cloning
A 26-year-old man, identified as Gaurav was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh's Shahjahanpur police for allegedly hacking nearly 500 bank accounts by learning fingerprint cloning online. Police said Gaurav learnt cloning fingerprints using glue-gun and adhesive through the internet and colluded with bank mitras and withdrew money from bank accounts the beneficiaries of various government schemes.
An investigation was launched after police received repeated complaints from several beneficiaries that they had not received money from the government into their bank accounts.
The crime branch took over the probe and found that the money was credited into the beneficiaries' accounts, but it was later withdrawn through Jan Suvidha Kendras being run by bank mitras, according to a report.
The police said Gaurav used to clone fingerprints for the bank mitras using glue-gun and adhesive that would cost him less than Rs 5 per cloning.
"They used cloned fingerprints to spoof biometrics to carry out financial transactions by hacking bank accounts. Most of the victims are illiterate. The technique used for cloning fingerprints is available online and it is often misused. We will see if such contents can be removed," IG Rajesh Pandey was quoted as saying.
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