Mumbai: Maharastra Cyber Police arrested a person in the case of a major digital extortion attempt at the Dream 11 app. The arrested person is the security officer, Abhishek Pratap Singh, who is working for the app itself. He was arrested in Bengaluru.
Dream 11 is a fantasy sports platform with a wide user base in India of 20 crore users.
According to Lokmat Times, it is alleged that Singh compromised the company’s data and sent a threatening email demanding payment not to be released on the dark web.
On August 11, Sporta Technologies Private Limited, which owns the Dream 11 app, received an email from an unidentified Gmail account, the email said that the sender, a hacker, had allegedly breached more than 1,200 repositories from Dream11’s GitHub account. The hacker also provided samples from the data he collected.
The Times of India quoted the email, “I want to bring to your attention that your GitHub account has been compromised, and over 1,200 repositories are accessible. For your reference, I have attached some examples of the compromised repositories and included the names of others for verification. Please review the attached information and let me know if you would like to take any action to prevent these repositories from being uploaded to the dark web.”