In a major cyber fraud incident, hackers infiltrated the server of Nainital Bank's Noida branch, located in Sector 62, and siphoned off ₹16.1 crore. The fraudulent transactions were discovered on June 17th during the reconciliation of the bank's RTGS account balance sheets. Upon reviewing the RBI system on June 20th, it was revealed that the money had been transferred to 84 different accounts between June 17th and June 21st. Following this discovery, the bank's IT Manager, Sumit Srivastava, filed a case at the Noida Cyber Crime Police Station and sought assistance from CERT-IN (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team).
Despite the bank's efforts to recover the stolen funds, only ₹69.5 lakh has been retrieved so far. The Noida Cyber Crime Wing, led by ACP Vivek Ranjan Rai, has registered a case against unknown fraudsters and is actively tracing the IP addresses used in the cyberattack. The police have also frozen the suspicious accounts and are requiring the account holders to complete their KYC process to aid in the investigation. The investigation is ongoing as authorities work to identify and apprehend the culprits.