Pakistani Hacker Arrested For Hacking Into Telecom Companies Database

Today Federal Investigation Agency ( FIA ) has arrested a Pakistani hacker who was involved in hacking of different Telecom companies databases and he upload their databases to his own website, with the help of National Response Center for Cyber Crime ( NR3C ) , FIA was able to trace the hacker and arrest the hacker who hacked into the databases if Warid Telecom and other Abu-Dhabi based telecoms which provided services to Pakistani , Congo and Uganda. Mubashar Shahzad is believed that he have downloaded the databases of different Telecom companies and uploaded it to his own website and exposed it online on his site which was earlysms.com which was hosted by HosterPK. Investigation was started after one complaint submitted to senior manager if cellular companies saying , �information of its consumers till 2006 had been exposed over the internet.�  Usman Anwar , Director of FIA told The Express Tribune that , " A technical/forensic analysis found that the website was being hosted by HosterPK. The FIA traced the IP Address , email addresses and phone numbers of the suspect through the hosting company." The IP Address was traced to Ghala Mandi , Kasur from where the authorities arrested Mubashar Shahzad and seized his laptop , there was a folder on his dekstop named "Waird Data" and many of the external hard drives were also seized by NR3C and the website on which he exposed the telecom companies data is also shut downed.