London: Pervez Musharraf would have felt ambushed, Michel Platini would flash a red card, Liz Truss aide Mark Fullbrook would’ve felt shortchanged in her short PM stint and BMW’s Stefan Quandt would slam the brakes if he could.
The leading lights feature on a dark laundry list of big names targeted by hackers in India at the centre of a worldwide scandal in which the gangs allegedly earned thousands of dollars by breaking into emails of government and prominent figures at the behest of private investigators.
The UK-based Sunday Times Insight Team and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism sent undercover reporters to India earlier this year posing as former MI6 agents 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 an SC 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.
They then contacted some of the top alleged hackers in India saying they wanted to gain private information on targets of their clients.
Bu hikaye The Times of India dergisinin November 07, 2022 sayısından alınmıştır.
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