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Saturday, Jul 01, 2006

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Police trying to understand how HSBC data processing works

Staff Reporter

Bangalore: A technical team from HSBC (HongKong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited) on Friday took a team from the Cyber Crime Police Station through the processes involved in collating and storing data related to the bank's customers overseas.

The Cyber Crime Police, a wing of the Corps of Detectives (CoD), are trying to understand how the data processing system at the bank functions to figure out how the secure data could have been accessed and then allegedly sold to persons in the U.K.

More tests likely

Inspector-General of Police (Economic Offences) S. Mahapatra said the efforts were on to understand the technical process involved as they were unable for the time being to get more information out of the accused, Nadeem Kashmiri.

"Nadeem Kashmiri kept breaking down during questioning. We are trying to find out how he came into contact with Ershad in the U.K., to whom he was passing on the bank's customers' data. We may have to subject him to some tests to get at the truth but we are yet to take a decision on that. His remand ends next week,'' the police officer said. The CoD is getting information from HSBC about the progress made by the U.K. police in their investigation of the scam involving £ 2,33,000.

The police here can reach the British police authorities only through Interpol. Before communicating with Interpol, the CoD wants to document enough evidence to make out a case.

Mr. Mahapatra said Nadeem Kashmiri, a college dropout, had good knowledge about the bank's data centre working and was computer savvy.

First case

This is the first case of "data theft" registered by Bangalore Police. Such incidents raise security concerns among client companies overseas, the police said.

Training

In a related development, the Cyber Crime Police Station here will have a training centre supported by NASSCOM and papers have been exchanged with the industry association.

A senior representative of NASSCOM visited the Cyber Crime Police Station here on Thursday when the training centre proposals were discussed. To start with, a 15-day training session will be held for 30 select police personnel.

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