(MENAFN- Khaleej Times)Two men face charges for allegedly hacking into the electronic database of a service company and copying data which they later divulged to a business group that had dealings with it.
The Indian (a salesman 48) and the Nepali (a manager 49) are believed to have intended to damage the company's reputation and make it lose a deal worth more than Dh50 million. The alleged wrongdoings ran from December 2013 to February 2014. They were charged in the Court of First Instance with gaining illegal access to an electronic database and divulging confidential information. The two defendants together with two other accomplices allegedly sent e-mails on complaints from customers on the quality of services of the complainant. In the e-mails they asked the other group not to have any dealings with the complainant. The British general-manager of the company based in Al Quoz said the group was one of their best clients and they were about to strike a deal worth Dh50 million with them. "The e-mails were meant to damage our reputation and make us lose the bid." The manager said the defendants and their two Indian accomplices had established their own rival company. "An audit information report has been prepared regarding the probe. It was known that the e-mails were sent between December 24 2013 and February 9 last year. They sent four e-mails." In one letter they said the manager's company was offering bad services with products that lacked in quality and that there were better companies. In another letter they attached a complaint by a customer against the manager's company. In another letter which they sent to the purchase section at the business group they attached three similar complaints from customers. The manager added that the Nepali defendant was still working with them after the hacking incident. He quit working for them on June 19 last year. Suspicions rose around him and the other accomplices. A police lieutenant said they received a complaint from a company that its database was hacked and confidential information was leaked to clients in order to damage its reputation. "On January 6 we went to the premises of the business group to which the e-mails were sent. Evidence pertaining to the said e-mails was taken." On February 19 the Criminal Evidence Department experts put their report in which they determined the IP address from which the e-mails were sent and it belonged to the Nepali.
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