KARACHI:Pakistan Rangers Sindh in a joint operation with Federal Investigation Agency in Orangi Town arrested an accused involved in hacking bank accounts, credit cards, debit cards and visa cards.
According to a news release on Sunday, Rangers’ technical team and Cyber Crime wing of FIA arrested Muhammad Asif Mughal and also seized his computer.
During initial interrogation, arrested accused revealed that he was an IT expert and had expertise in hacking bank accounts and credit cards of different countries. He used to buy cards from a website and then shop from online markets. Arrested accused after agreement with seller, used to pay them 40% commission and did shopping of 60% from them online.
From 2018, Asif Mughal started buying bank accounts data from various call centers for Rs 2,000 to Rs 5,000 and used to call customers from his own call center to tell them that their account had been hacked. With purchased accounts data he mislead the customer and generated an OTP (one-time password). In this way, the accused used to withdraw money from the customer’s account after using their OTP. He was committing such crimes since 2012 and had caused loss of millions of rupees to the public by hacking various bank accounts and credit cards. The accused had also visited Malaysia several times between 2014 to 2016.
The arrested accused has been handed over to FIA Cyber Crime wing for further legal proceedings.