BPO employee held for data theft

AHMEDABAD: A young computer engineer was nabbed by the company authorities for data theft from the company computer and uploading it on another data sharing site for future use. He was nabbed by city cyber cell officials on Saturday.

According to cyber cell officials, they had received a complaint from Satellite police station officials where Anand Desai, an official of a Satellite-based BPO, had mentioned that Ashok Jangad, a resident of Isanpur, had stolen database from the company.

"Ashok, a native of Bharatpur, Rajasthan, was earlier working at BPO of a mobile operator major and then joined the company specialising in college and university database. According to the complaint, he used the company computer for uploading the company data on a data sharing website for future use," said BC Solanki, inspector of cyber cell of city crime branch.

The BPO involved has helped several universities making its online directory and recently a directory available on mobile phone for Gujarat University.

He added that the company has a system in place where any data transaction inside the company can be monitored. "When the officials got to know that a huge amount of data is going out, they kept a watch and found data infringement. Jangad was given responsibility of data collection pertaining to various courses offered by colleges and universities in the country and had limited access to the database," said Solanki.

Officials said that his questioning is on to know why he did the theft and whether he was in touch with any rivals for sale. "Ashok comes from a modest background. His father is associated with marble business in Rajasthan and is settled in the city since the past one year. He is unmarried and living alone," said crime branch officials.