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Offshore Worker Nabbed for Caterpillar Data Theft
Offshore Worker Nabbed for Caterpillar Data Theft
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September 17, 2007 (Computerworld) -- An IT worker at Caterpillar Inc.’s engineering design center in India allegedly used another employee’s username and password earlier this year to access and steal about 4,000 confidential documents from one of the company’s servers in the U.S.
A Caterpillar spokeswoman in China confirmed that the incident took place and said that a now-former employee at the company’s facility in Chennai, India, had been arrested in connection with the alleged data theft.
“We are doing everything possible to cooperate with the authorities to ensure a full and timely investigation,” the spokeswoman said. She declined to disclose any further information about the system hack, saying, “The matter is in the hands of local authorities.”
According to reports published in Indian newspapers, the alleged perpetrator, identified as 37-year-old M.S. Ramasamy, was arrested by the Cyber Crime Cell of India’s Criminal Investigations Department in late July. He has been charged under the country’s Information Technology Act with hacking into a server and stealing confidential data.
Ramasamy had left Peoria, Ill.-based Caterpillar and was working for an unidentified IT company in India at the time of his arrest, which took place near Bangalore, according to the newspaper reports.
He is accused of hacking into Caterpillar’s Research and Engineering Documents Inquiry system, known as REDI, on multiple occasions in January and February. A recording from a closed- circuit camera and system logs connected Ramasamy to the intrusions, and police in India have since recovered tapes and disks that are said to contain the downloaded documents.
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September 17, 2007 (Computerworld) -- An IT worker at Caterpillar Inc.’s engineering design center in India allegedly used another employee’s username and password earlier this year to access and steal about 4,000 confidential documents from one of the company’s servers in the U.S.
A Caterpillar spokeswoman in China confirmed that the incident took place and said that a now-former employee at the company’s facility in Chennai, India, had been arrested in connection with the alleged data theft.
“We are doing everything possible to cooperate with the authorities to ensure a full and timely investigation,” the spokeswoman said. She declined to disclose any further information about the system hack, saying, “The matter is in the hands of local authorities.”
According to reports published in Indian newspapers, the alleged perpetrator, identified as 37-year-old M.S. Ramasamy, was arrested by the Cyber Crime Cell of India’s Criminal Investigations Department in late July. He has been charged under the country’s Information Technology Act with hacking into a server and stealing confidential data.
Ramasamy had left Peoria, Ill.-based Caterpillar and was working for an unidentified IT company in India at the time of his arrest, which took place near Bangalore, according to the newspaper reports.
He is accused of hacking into Caterpillar’s Research and Engineering Documents Inquiry system, known as REDI, on multiple occasions in January and February. A recording from a closed- circuit camera and system logs connected Ramasamy to the intrusions, and police in India have since recovered tapes and disks that are said to contain the downloaded documents.
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