Bengaluru: Bengaluru Cyber Crime Police have arrested three youths on  charges of hacking the e-mail account of retired DGP Shankar Bidari and pocketing Rs.25,000 by sending messages seeking financial assistance to his friends.

The accused have been identified as 31-year-old Thia Samong, 27-year-old Seropa Sesai and 28-year-old Esther Konyak, all from Nagaland. 

According to Police, the accused had more than 60 accounts in various banks. Various documents such as rent agreements, six Aadhaar Cards, 13 PAN cards, two ATM cards and two mobile phones have been seized from them. 

It is learnt that they were experts in hacking websites and had also floated a fake Human Resources company to lure unemployed youth from the North-East States to Bengaluru.

The Police said that their modus operandi was simple, hacking well-known personalities’ e-mail or social media IDs and send messages seeking financial help from the friends of these personalities. Thinking that their ‘VIP friend’ is in trouble, most of them used to transfer money,” the Police added.

Following hacking of the retired DGP’s e-mail in February, the retired Cop had lodged a complaint with Cyber Crime Police, who in arrested the accused.