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Class 11 student held for hacking girl's Orkut account

October 27, 2011 16:50 IST
A class 11 student has been arrested in Bihar's capital Patna for hacking the social networking account of a girl and posting nude morphed photos on it.

Patna Police arrested Manoj Singh (name changed) for hacking the Orkut account of a student of Patna Women's College.

Patna Superintendent of Police Shivdeep W Lande said that this was the first case of cyber crime that the police had solved.
 
According to officials,
the girl approached the police after she came to know about the ID hack.

"We sent a letter along with the copy of the FIR to Google, which owns Orkut, and sought details pertaining to the hacking. The company provided details of the Internet Protocol address that led police to arrest the boy behind it," police officials said.

During interrogation, boy confessed that he had hacked accounts of several girls in past. 
MI Khan in Patna