The salary accounts of more than 23 employees of the Software giant Infosys were hacked. The victims of this hack whose money was money siphoned off in May this year, were reportedly working for the company across the nation.
Inside sources informed that at least five employees lost over Rs.2 lakh from their accounts. The company’s Hyderabad branch received just a few complaints, along with several other complaints from cities including Chennai, Bhubaneswar and Bengaluru had complained about the online fraud.
The first complaint came from an employee in Bhubaneswar on May 8, triggering others, tagged in the company’s internal mailing group, to rise the alarm, employees confirmed.
Infosys is yet comment on the issue despite repeated attempts of media to contact them. ICICI bank on the other hand confirmed the theft of the amount.
“Each of the salary accounts indicated several online transactions that were fraudulent and in most cases police refused to entertain complaints,” a source said. Interestingly, a majority of the aggrieved employees had employee identification numbers beginning with the series — 192.
“Most of the employees who faced the problem were recruited in the August, 2011 batch of the company’s Hyderabad office to be later deputed to other places,” an employee said.
According to the confirmation reports from ICICI bank, the fraud has forced the official bank of the company to refund the amounts.
