The tech-savvy police of Hyderabad hired a team of ethical hackers to identify and nab Vannam Sriram Dinesh Kumar from Vijayawada, who amassed more than ₹3 crore in the last three years by hacking the data servers of various payment gateways.
In a clinical operation, the cybercrime police and ethical hackers pursued the leads for more than two months and checkmated the ethical hacker-turned-criminal and aced the game against him, Joint Commissioner of Police (Detective Department) Gajarao Bhupal told The Hindu.
An engineering dropout, but a highly-talented techie, as described by the police, Dinesh Kumar used to pick up small-time gig works at mobile shops and understood how SIM cards could be used to advance his nefarious activity. After enhancing his skills by watching tech videos on YouTube, he become a regular at hackathons and was a rewarded ‘bug bounty hunter’ by various payment gateway companies.
