Actress’ email id hacked

Meghna Naidu

Mateen Hafeez I TNN

Mumbai: Actress Meghna Naidu, who shot to fame with the Kaliyon Ka Chaman video, has complained to the crime branch that her email account was hacked into on Tuesday. The hacker allegedly tried to malign her by telling her friends on chat that she was pregnant and abused three other actors.

Meghna told TOI that she got suspicious when some of her friends called her up to ask if she was chatting with them at a specific time. “A friend of mine said that he was taken aback when I abused three Bollywood actors on chat and even said that I was pregnant. However, my friends soon realised that my account was hacked and informed me.’’ “The hacker chatted
through my account with three of my friends for two hours. These friends are not from Bollywood,’’ she said.

Meghna approached the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell (CCIC) of the crime branch and
submitted an application. No FIR has been registered yet. “Three other email accounts, operated by her assistant Dale Bhagwagar, were also hacked into. She said the hacker had changed her password and she was unable to access her account,’’ said inspector Mukund Pawar, in-charge of the CCIC.

The CCIC has written to the US-based email service, asking the company to provide them details about the places this email ID was accessed from in the past few of days and the user’s Internet Protocol (IP) address. The CCIC has not received any response yet.

WHAT HAPPENED Actress Meghna Naidu’s email account is hacked into. The hacker chats up her friends and allegedly tells them that Meghna is pregnant
Three other email accounts, operated by her assistant Dale Bhagwagar, are also hacked into
She claims the hacker changed her password and she was unable to access her account

WHAT THE POLICE WILL DO
After getting IP address details, the cops will contact the Internet Service Provider to get information about the person/user to whom the IP address is allotted
The cops will visit the place the IP address is traced to. They will instal a software in the computer to check if it was the one used to hack Meghna’s account. The cops may also take hard disk of Meghna’s PC

The Times of India, June 24, 2010