Cyber-crime: Unknown fraudster hacks Bhopal doctor's Gmail account

Bhopal: On Monday a case was registered by the cyber-crime branch against an unidentified online fraudster who hacked an email account of a doctor, leading to his loss of access to his social media accounts after which he approached officials.

The victim is Dr. Sachin Chittawar, who is an endocrinologist who has a private nursing home in Jawahar Chowk and has over 50k social media followers. 

According to Dr. Chittawar's complaint to police, his email account had been hacked around a month earlier and it has stopped working because of that. He has also been unable to access social media accounts connected to his email account since then. He claimed that a link might have been opened mistakenly which was sent by the hacker.

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He also has a Youtube channel where he uploads health awareness videos and has 45k subscribers. He had 10-12 years of data in that email account. Then, he asked to google for help but received no response from them. The police gave Dr. Sachin assurance of data recovery.

In frustration, he approached the cyber police when he was unable to log into his accounts, and the investigation to catch the hacker is underway. ACP (Cyber-crime) Akshay Choudhary told TOI that he uploads informational videos over social media platforms.

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Medical Dialogues team earlier reported that the main financial server and patient data of a private hospital in Mysuru were hacked by unknown persons in turn for a ransom in bitcoin, following which the hospital authorities approached the Cybercrime, Economic offenses, and Narcotics (CEN) Police.

An FIR was registered by the police. The hackers who stole the data left a message where they asked for a ransom amount in bitcoin, as per a media report in the Times of India. According to a media report in the Star of Mysore, the issue came to light after the hospital employees complained of computer access problems. Following that, the team members began looking for malicious software and they found a file, which had instructions to contact the perpetrators of the cyberattack.

The hospital officials realized that their main financial server and patient data were hacked, with a message left that sought ransom in bitcoin. Those responsible for the attack held the data hostage until they made a payment in bitcoins. However, the hospital did not lose a lot since it had a data backup in hard disks, and they have been used to resume the functions at the hospital.