Kathmandu, March 11
Over Rs 1 million has been stolen through hacking Connect IPS. The amount was stolen from the bank account connected to the Connect IPS of Shivanandan Mehta and his mother Rusnidevi in Inaruwa Municipality-2 of Sunsari.
According to Mehta, on January 24, 2024, he received a message from his mother’s account that Rs 110,000 was deducted 22 times at Rs 5,000 per deduction.
“I found out that the money was deducted only the next morning. In the morning, an additional Rs 910,000 was also deducted from my account which was linked to the same account of Connect IPS”, he said, “Within five minutes after the realisation of the deduction, I reached NIC Asia Bank but the employees said that they can do nothing about the transaction.”
He has also filed a complaint in the district police office, Sunsari and the cyber bureau of the police. As mentioned in the complaint, it is seen that the money in Lumbini Bikas Bank Inruva of mother Rusni Devi went to Afsor Soft-Tech Pvt Ltd in Kathmandu.
The police said the money stolen from Shivanandan was transferred to the Sunrise Bank account of Pareshwar Thapa Chhetri.
Afsor Soft Tech Pvt Ltd, where Shivanandan’s mother’s money was transferred, also stated that its account was hacked. Upon examining the details of that account, it was observed that the money transferred there was also under the name of Pareshwar Thapa Chhetri.
The Cyber Bureau has informed that it was hacked from the US location using a VPN.
