more-inRAMANATHAPURAMThe district police have arrested an unemployed MBA graduate, a tech savvy, on charges of hacking the android mobile phone of a woman, his relative, and blackmailing her, threatening to post her pictures, videos and chatting with her husband in the internet and social media. The police said the accused, while helping the woman download WhatsApp in her mobile phone, discretely downloaded ‘Track view’ app, available in the Play Store in her mobile, and started hacking her phone. The woman exchanged pictures and videos with her husband, who was working abroad, and the accused kept track of all her mobile transactions, using his laptop, the police said. Later, he blackmailed her, threatening to leak the pictures in the internet if she did not get intimate with him. Examination of his two laptops showed that he had downloaded various apps to hack mobile phones of women, the SP said.

Source: The Hindu August 01, 2018 13:52 UTC