Cybercriminals leak personal details of 2.9 crore Indians on dark web The zipped file reveals a lot of personal details--education, address, etc--of millions of Indians Job seekers

Cyble, a third-party cyber risk intelligence platform, conducted a regular sweep of the deep web and dark web and found that personal details of 9 Million Indian Job Seekers from the various states were released in the aforementioned platforms.

“Cyble researchers have identified a sensitive data breach on the dark web where an actor has leaked personal details of 29 Million Indian Job Seekers from the various states. The original leak appears to be from a resume aggregator service collecting data from various known job portals. Cyble’s team is still investigating this further and will be updating their article as they bring more facts to the surface," an official press release from the by Cyble stated.

The researchers found that a 'threat actor' posted a 2.3 GB (zipped) file on one of the hacking forums. Cybele's official website states that the zip file must have originated from a resume aggregator.

The zipped file reveals a lot of personal details--education, address, etc--of millions of Indians Job seekers."This breach includes sensitive information such as email, phone, home address, qualification, work experience etc," Cyble's official website stated.

Cyble has indexed the leaked information at AmIbreached.com. The concerned people can access the information by registering at the official website.

The intelligence firm conducts these routine searches ver the deep web and dark web to keep tabs on cybercriminals conducting nefarious activities such as identity thefts, scams, and corporate espionage, to steal personal information.

AgustaWestland case: CBI court allows further interrogation of alleged middleman Christian Michel Special Judge Pulastya Pramachala on Saturday gave the order, allowing the ED to interrogate Michel in the jail premises.

CBI Special Court has allowed Enforcement Directorate (ED) to further interrogate Christian Michel, the alleged middleman in connection with the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper case, in Tihar jail.

Michel was extradited from Dubai last year and is currently lodged in Tihar Jail. 

The court has allowed the ED to visit Tihar jail on May 25, 2020, from 10.00 AM to 1:30 PM, and May 26, from 2.30 P.M. to 5.00 P.M., to interrogate him in presence of jail superintendent or his authorised official.  

Special Judge Pulastya Pramachala on Saturday gave the order, allowing the ED to interrogate Michel in the jail premises.

The court allowed the ED’s plea moved by the agency’s special public prosecutor N K Matta after he submitted during a hearing held through video conferencing that the accused was required to be confronted with certain documents during its ongoing probe in the case.

Michel, a British national extradited from Dubai in December, is one of the three middlemen being investigated for organising bribes to push the deal with decision-makers in India. The other two are Guido Haschke and Carlo Gerosa. In January, Michael was sent to judicial custody in the ED case. He is also lodged in Tihar jail due to a CBI case related to the scam.

The  AgustaWestland case pertains to alleged irregularities in the purchase of 12 VVIP choppers from Italy-based Finmeccanica's British subsidiary AgustaWestland.

The deal was scrapped by the NDA government in 2014 over the alleged breach of contractual obligations and charges of payment of kickbacks for securing the deal.