With the emergence in the field of technology, the number of cyber crimes have also emerged. Different types of cyber crimes daily take place such as phishing, email spoofing, data theft, identity theft, bullying, harassment, cyber extortion, ransomware attacks, etc. The majority of the people would opine that the Cyber criminals engage in these activities for the sake of money but there are numerous examples where money wasn’t the only target of the Cyber criminals, rather they targeted people.
The intent of cyber criminals, targeting the people can differ from case to case. Sometimes it may target a single person or sometimes a large number of persons. Various examples show the instances where the target of the cyber crimes were people, be it belonging to specific religion or age group or sometimes a sole person. Various examples of such crimes are discussed below:
Bulli Bai App- This app was created over the platform namely GitHub which is an open software development site owned by Microsoft. The word ‘Bulli’ in the local slang has a very derogatory label for Muslim women. This incident was reported in early 2022 when the pictures of over 100 Muslim women were uploaded for mock auction over a virtual platform. There were pictures of Muslim women including the actor, politicians, activists, many Journalists, the wife of a sitting judge of the High Court, etc. A similar incident also took place in 2021 under the name ‘Sulli Deals’ which also included a similar kind of offense against Muslim Women. Although two men were booked for creating that App and were charged u/s 153A, 153B, 354A(3), and 509 of the Indian Penal Code which mainly deals with Acts of promoting the enmity between two groups and causing disharmony along with sexual harassment and insulting modesty of Women. Afterward in March 2022, the accused were granted bail for being first-time offenders and on Humanitarian grounds.
Blue Whale Challenge- This was an online suicide app that took the lives of many teenagers in 2015 and 2016 mainly. There were 50 tasks that the victims had to perform in 50 days. Each day a single task was allotted and the severity of the task used to get increased day by day. It mainly included cutting a whale on one’s arm and on the 50th Day the task to end their own life was allotted to the victims. Many teenagers who were depressed or had some issues fell prey to that Challenge. It targeted children across the globe. Also when in Finally, in 2016 a 21-year-old who was charged for inciting Teenagers to commit suicide through this Challenge had no regret for doing the same.
Baazee Case- The case mainly deals with the liability of intermediaries and in this case, the CEO of Baazee.com had been arrested and took the plea of being a mere service provider and was later released on a bond. But the case involved the sale of a CD under the label of another item, it included inappropriate and obscene content. Although the item was taken down from the website that was listed for sale. But it created a huge scene that how the filters on the website were unable to detect such content on the website.
UIDAI Software Hack- This incident took place in 2018 when the data of billions of Indian Aadhar Cards were was leaked and became was one of the biggest data breaches in India. Over 200 Indian websites were hacked and information about Aadhar, PAN, IFSC code of Bank, and other personal information of users were was hacked and later put forth for sale.
Thus, various types of cyber crimes have targeted the people first instead of money. There’s no quick solution to these offenses but safety can be a preventive measure. There is a need for strong protection of data so that there may not be such cases that arise in the future.
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