Two arrested as Gujarat police bust inter-state bomb threat network
As many as 5,13,847 email IDs and passwords were found on the devices of one of the accused, a senior police official said
Two individuals were arrested in Bihar and Jharkhand over an alleged inter-state network involved in sending bomb threat emails, according to police. The investigation began after a bomb threat email was received by the Gujarat Secretariat on September 10. Technical analysis of the email communication led the Gujarat Police Cyber Centre of Excellence (CCoE) to Bhagalpur in Bihar and Deoghar in Jharkhand, where two suspects were identified.
Roushan Kumar of Bhagalpur and Gulshan Kumar Singh of Deoghar were taken into custody. Police seized a device used by Kumar, which contained 7,215 email IDs and their corresponding passwords. Singh is accused of supplying these lists to individuals across the country for use in sending threat emails. Vivek Bheda, SP of the CCoE, stated that the network had 5,13,847 email IDs and passwords, including the one used to send the threat to the Gujarat Secretariat.
The police plan to notify Google about security vulnerabilities to prevent further propagation of such emails, through the Home Ministry.
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