00:05and we are cutting across to more breaking news coming in need refund scam has been busted as
00:11Bihar youth has been held for targeting neat students 150 students refunds that were sent
00:17to the account of the accused the accused arrested by Ahmedabad cyber cops where neat
00:24bottle was hacked why because the accused was trying to get all the refund into his account
00:30and now he's been caught for the refund fraud bank details had changed to steal the refunds of
00:37students so you can imagine it was 1700 rupees per refund per student that got diverted to his
00:46account more than 350 neat aspirants who were reportedly targeted by this hacker who conducted
00:53the cyber security fraud cracking students passwords and the cops have said that weak
00:58passwords had helped the accused in looting the money of innocent students this morning we have
01:09got you details of how glitches had begun to appear and students were raising those glitches on the
01:16NTA portal but with regards to what was happening to the money refunded where several students were
01:27targeted by this hacker who almost looted more than 350 students remember these students were appearing for
01:37a re-exam on the 21st of June after the paper leak that was reported on the 3rd of May
01:42and the big
01:43decision that was taken by the NTA to conduct a re-exam just a week to go and even as
01:49students had
01:49reported several glitches that appeared on the NTA portal this scammer slash hacker who has now been
01:59caught by the cops and a major cyber fraud that has been linked to the needs portal has been busted
02:08by
02:08the Ahmedabad cybercrime cell a 19 year old accused from Bihar's Gaia who has been arrested for allegedly
02:14diverting refund money meant for neat aspirants into his own bank account now according to investigators
02:20the accused targeted more than 350 students registered on the needs portal police say he used
02:26brute force techniques to crack passwords and gain unauthorized access to student accounts after logging in
02:32he allegedly changed the bank account details of candidates ensuring that 1700 rupees of refund money
02:40for each student that was transferred into his account instead now around 150 students who were
02:46affected by this fraud the accused who was tracked down after NTA shared details of the accounts where
02:52the refunds had been diverted following the breach NTA had strengthened security measures including the
02:58introduction of two-factor authentication and enhanced safeguards on the portal the case has
03:03once again raised serious questions over cyber security and protection of student data
03:10account
03:10the net exam cancelled the government has allowed to verify that the refund amount will be transferred
03:16and after this there was a gang the cyber crime gang from the bank account to their students who
03:22have login ID and password if you see those students who have login ID and password and if you have
03:24forget the password then there was no two-factor authentication in the fact that they were
03:28in the same direction and after the fact that there were select your security features or questions
03:31We have worked with NTA's technical team, CSI officer, and other technical team
03:35with their websites, who entered and entered and entered and entered,
03:38and went to this ground, and how they operated and took care of them.
03:41We have worked with ROP, which is Naveen Kumar Shankar Prashad,
03:43in Bihar.
03:44We have worked with Ahmedabad Cybercrime.
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