Hyderabad: A day after the Cyberabad Police issued a notice to the Amazon Web Services seeking information on the data breach, a notice has now been issued to Google Play.
Police also said four teams had been formed to secure owner of the firm IT Grids India Pvt Ltd D Ashok as he ‘failed’ to appear for investigation despite summons and was suspected to have fled to Andhra Pradesh. “Database is said to be have been stored with the Amazon Web Services and Google Play. We have sent notices to them for production of the database relating to the app,” said Cyberabad Police Commissioner V C Sajjanar.
According to media reports, they are also in the process of writing AP government, UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) and Election Commission and Registrar of Companies for more details in this regard.
Raids were held on Saturday and Sunday under sections of the IPC and the IT Act in the presence of four employees of the firm, after the police received a complaint from a data analyst who alleged that he found the TDP cadres were using certain software applications, especially ‘Seva Mitra’ app, for advancing the party’s electoral prospects. The firm was used by the Andhra Pradesh government to get hold of access to enormous amount of official and private data of individuals, including their Aadhaar numbers, claimed the complainant.
Based on this complaint, the Telangana Police on Saturday filed a case against a Hyderabad-based IT firm IT Grids India Pvt Ltd D for allegedly stealing data of voters through the ‘SevaMitra’ mobile application, which was used by the ruling TDP, a political row broke out in Andhra Pradesh.
Even as the Telangana police claimed that the firm had illegal access to details of voters, the Chief Minister yesterday alleged that a conspiracy was at play to help Jaganmohan Reddy of YSR Congress and sought the transfer of the case from the Telangana police to AP as per the CrPC.
The AP Cabinet, however, maintained that no data had been stolen and that the Telangana government was portraying the victim as the accused. The TRS, its police system and some officers within it are acting in an illegal manner.