Mumbai Police crack blast terror e-mail case

The Mumbai police have made a major break through in the blast terror e-mail case. Highly placed sources in the Mumbai police have told that they have taken into custody the elusive hacker behind the Indian Mujahideen terror emails. The Mumbai police have solved the mystery behind how the terror terror emails were being sent and how wi-fi connections were being hacked into by the hacker.

15 persons ahave been arrested for their involvement in Delhi, Ahmedabad, Surat and Bangalore blasts by Mumbai police. Mohammad Azghar (31), Mohammad Shaikh (24) and Asif Bashiruddin Shaikh (22) have been arrested.

Mumbai Police have told that the man they have arrested in connection with the case is the main hacker. Sources have told that the operative is a highly qualified software engineer working with a top IT multinational in Mumbai at a senior position.Police sources also say he belongs to a highly educated family and is also a high networth individual.

The state Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) had traced the e-mail sent to a media house by people claiming to belong to the Indian Mujahideen to the WiFi network of Matunga’s Khalsa College of Arts, Science and Commerce. The email had been sent at 7.05 pm on Saturday.

Earlier investigations had shown that the senders hacked into the WiFi facility of the college, said. But investigations reached a dead end due to the fact that the senders deleted their log entries immediately after using the network.

The Indian Mujahideen group had earlier used an unsecure WiFi network at the Navi Mumbai residence of American national Kenneth Haywood to send an email to various news organizations on July 26, just five minutes before the Ahmedabad explosions. In that case, Haywood’s WiFi router had its security features disabled.