{"id":276671,"date":"2026-01-19T00:24:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=276671"},"modified":"2026-01-19T00:24:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:54:50","slug":"hacker-arrested-for-blackmailing-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/hacker-arrested-for-blackmailing-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacker arrested for blackmailing woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 18 Jan:<\/strong> The state&#8217;s cyber crime police station (CCPS) has arrested one Gaurav Chetri (22), a resident of Kashipur, Haflong (Assam), in a case related to hacking, impersonation, and online blackmail of a woman through social media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cyber crime cell informed that a case was registered under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Section 66C and Section 66D of the Information Technology Act, 2008 on 8January.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Based on a complaint that the victim&#8217;s Google drive was compromised and her private images were misused to extort money, investigation revealed that a fake Instagram account was created in the victim&#8217;s name and was used to threaten her with circulation of her private images unless money was paid. Technical analysis, including IP logs and CDR records, led investigators to a mobile number linked to the account,&#8221; the cyber cell added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It further informed that a police team, led by CCPS OC Inspector Bumchu Krong and comprising SI Subhash Tapak, Head Constable KK Tripathi, and Constables Sourav Nath and Manoj Kumar, proceeded to Umrangsao in Assam&#8217;s Dima Hasao district on Thursday, and arrested Gaurav Chetri after following due legal procedures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A mobile phone and the linked SIM card used to operate the account were seized. Further investigation is in progress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cyber cell informed that the victim&#8217;s social media account was accessed through &#8220;brute-force password guessing.&#8221; The cyber cell police have advised the citizens to use a difficult-to-guess alphanumeric password to protect their privacy and remain safe from online hackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 18 Jan: The state&#8217;s cyber crime police station (CCPS) has arrested one Gaurav Chetri (22), a resident of Kashipur, Haflong (Assam), in a case related to hacking, impersonation, and online blackmail of a woman through social media. The cyber crime cell informed that a case was registered under relevant sections of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276675,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276671\/revisions\/276675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}