FIA Arrested a Pakistani Hacker for Hacking into Telecom Customers Database

FIA – Federal Investigation Agency of Pakistan Arrested a Pakistani Hacker involved in hacking into a telecom company, and leaking the data on-line on his website.

A resident of Kasur, Mubashar Shahzad was arrested on Wednesday after the NR3C – National Response Center for Cyber Crime the sub-department of FIA traced the IP address (Internet Protocol Address) of Usman Anwar – Director of FIA said.

Usman Anwar also added, the action was taken after Umair Qazi, a senior manager of cellular company (Warid) filed a complaint against the website (earlysms.com, lifetimesms.com) and said that the information of company’s consumers till 2006 leaked over internet.

FIA – Contacted NR3C National Response Centre for Cyber Crime, the expert traced that the website is hosted on a Pakistani Hosting Service Provider (HosterPK), NR3C gathered information from the company like IP address, Email Address and Phone number. FIA arrested Shahzad in a raid after they traced the IP address to a shop in Ghalla Mandi, Noorpur, Kasur. As the Director of FIA Usman Anwar told to The Express Tribune:

“A technical/forensic analysis found that the website was being hosted by hosterpk. The FIA traced the IP address, email address and phone number of the suspect through the host company,”
“The team seized computers containing folders named Warid data… two desktop computers, hard drives and portable passport drives were seized from the shop,”
“NR3C laboratory in Lahore found that the seized drives contained the cellular network’s database,”

The website where the stolen data was posted by the hacker has now been shut down.