Police solve 10 cybercrime cases, nab 20 across the country in a week

Hyderabad: The Cyberabad cybercrime police solved 10 cases and arrested 20 offenders from different states between Oct 22 and 28.Among those arrested were five individuals accused of siphoning Rs 3 crore from a private travel company.Investigators traced digital footprints linked to online trading scams and e-commerce swindles, as well as a Rs 3 crore ticket-booking wallet hack targeting a private travel agency, which operates bus services to different cities across South India.The most significant case involved the exploitation of a loophole in a private travel agency's ticketing system. During the second week of Sept, the travel company's manager filed a complaint stating that the perpetrators had initially recharged their digital wallets on the agency's website, purchased bus tickets for popular routes such as Bengaluru–Hyderabad, and then instantly cancelled the transactions. "Due to a coding error in the wallet module, the system restored the original balance while simultaneously crediting the refund, effectively doubling the amount available for further misuse," the complainant alleged.Based on this complaint, the police analysed the fraudulent ticket transactions and arrested five of the accused — Chennupati Sivannarayana, Kadali Narayana Swamy, Anugula Rajkumar, Jadda Brahmaiah and Pericherla Varma — in different locations in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday. "The accused are former employees of the travel company in AP. They knew about the software glitch in the booking system and exploited it," said Inspector S Shivaprasad.The accused repeatedly topped up their wallets, booked tickets, cancelled them, and used the doubled balance to book genuine tickets for unsuspecting passengers while pocketing the cash. The scam, executed between May and July 2025, drained over Rs 3 crore from the company's account.Of the remaining 15 accused, 14 were involved in cases linked to fraudulent stock-trading platforms that promised quick returns. Police also seized 24 mobile phones and 19 SIM cards used by the accused in executing the scams.