Indian Hackers Illegally Earn Thousands Of Dollars Working For PI’s
Big names are being targeted by hackers in India at the center of a worldwide scandal in which the gangs allegedly earned thousands of dollars by breaking into emails of government and prominent figures at the request of private investigators. Prominent news sources sent undercover reporters to India earlier this year posing as former MI6 agents (yep, same as James Bond) turned-corporate investigators seeking to hire some of India’s top computer hackers to infiltrate the illegal hacking industry.
One hacker claimed to have used Pegasus, the Israeli software which ignited a political firestorm in India two years ago and prompted a probe into surveillance allegations. Hacking is illegal in India and the UK. The undercover reporters set up a fake corporate investigation firm in Mayfair, London called Beaufort Intelligence.
Then the reporters contacted some of the top alleged hackers in India saying they wanted to gain private information on the targets of their clients. Indian hackers “seized control of computers owned by Pakistan’s politicians, generals and diplomats and eavesdropped on their private conversations,” one article claimed.
The investigation found that victims were often befriended by Indian hackers on social media and the hackers sent them something interesting that required a click. Some Indian hackers even boasted to journalists that they were never caught.
The team also came across a group of hackers operating from an office in Gurgaon under the name White Int run by Aditya Jain, 31, a Deloitte staffer who moonlights as a hacker.
“The British and the whole world are using Indian hackers,” he told them, explaining how he obtained passwords through phishing.
“90% of private investigators use Indian hackers to do this kind of job,” he said.
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