A BTech dropout, Sunny coordinated with international hackers

When students dropout from their studies, the next few months are fraught by uncertainties as a jobless future intimidates even the brightest of students.

However, when Sunny Nehra dropped out from a BTech course, he managed to put himself back on his feet after he started hacking into the payment gateway of many

e-commerce sites and managed to fulfill his dreams of travelling with executive class plane tickets, eating out at expensive five star hotels, and attending posh parties with his girlfriends. He achieved all this at a young age of 23.

But his greed for the high flying life soon got him and his associates on the police radar after which Sub-Inspector Varun Gullaiya, who managed to complete his BTech unlike Sunny was the one who managed to trace the elusive gang.

It did not take much effort for the B Teach dropout to attain mastery in data tampering, as after a brief period of tinkering with the vulnerabilities of various websites, he became an expert in the field. But that did not stop him and he drank deep from the fountain of Dark Web, a part of the internet which can be accessed through special software and grants the users complete anonymity.

Soon, Sunil had recruited fellow hackers to his group and took them on a trip to the dark web where he started to coordinate with international hackers.

"We have so far found that he was in touch with hackers from Amsterdam and Indonesia. They used to give tips about data tampering and they would identify the prominent websites with very weak security and would target these sites," said a police source.

Sunny had started slow as he was involved in siphoning off money, staying below the police radar. But later, he decided to exploit the weak security on many prominent e-commerce websites and started to tamper with the source codes.

"The group would identify the payment gateway which could be exploited. He found that the payment gateway Pay U had offered its programmers the choice of changing the parameters on the processing page. Sunny tested out the site and when he found that the information was in fact right, he and his team targeted the site," said a senior police official. The group armed with a 256 GB Ram Alien ware laptop, with the hacking suite Python uploaded to it, the group initiated the attacks. They initially started to add additional cashbacks on several offers and then started using the same gift card multiple times. Eventually, they graduated in placing online orders without making any actual payment or by making small payments.