Parashar told the friend that she had not been online as she was busy attending an event.
For the past two days, 27-year-old Janki Parashar (name changed on request) has been busy trying to answer calls of people on her email address list who have been asking her the reason for her strange behaviour online.
On Friday night, Parashar, a PR professional, received a call from a journalist friend who asked her why she was behaving so weirdly while chatting online that evening.
Parashar told the friend that she had not been online as she was busy attending an event.
By Saturday morning, Parashar received a number of calls from people who had similar queries. On Saturday afternoon, when she tried to log in to her Gmail account, she found that the password had been changed.
"I logged in using my other account and I could see that the hacker was online to chat with people on my list. It was then that I remembered that on Friday evening, I had received a chat message from a friend who asked me to click on a link," said Parashar.
She added: "I did not find anything in the link, so I logged out. By Saturday afternoon it was clear that my account had been hacked. I finally registered a complaint with the Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) Cyber police station.”
The hacker told the people on her address list to ask Parashar to chat with him online. After Parashar went online, the hacker told her that he would give her the password only if she came online on webcam on Saturday night.
Parashar did not agree to his request, after which the alleged hacker said that if she didn't agree, he would cause more damage.
He gave her a Yahoo account username and asked her to be online and told her that he would release her password once he saw her face. Parashar came to know that the email account given to her was also hacked into.
"I am waiting for the police to take some action so that this harassment stops," said Parashar.
A senior police officer from the BKC Cyber police station said, "We have registered the case and asked the victim to write to Google to get her account retrieved. Further investigations are on to trace the hacker.”
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