Exemployee firm head booked for data theft The Tribune

pThe cybercrime cell here has registered an FIR against Divyanshu Jain Director of Divrit Consultancy Pvt Ltd and Aaina Gupta a former compliance assistant at a Chandigarhbased chartered accountancy firm for allegedly conspiring to steal sensitive data of over 2000 clients and misusing it to harm the business interests of their former employerppIn the FIR filed by Nipun Bansal a partner at Ms Parshotam and Associates Charted Accountant the duo has been accused of orchestrating a monthlong scheme that involved email impersonation theft of digital signatures and unauthorised access to confidential firm datappAccording to the complaint Gupta joined the complainants firm in Ludhiana as a compliance assistant and was later promoted to compliance manager However over time her conduct reportedly changed and she was frequently observed speaking to unknown persons about firm matters Despite repeated warnings her behaviour persisted raising suspicionsppppIn June 2024 Gupta resigned under the pretext of pursuing further studies and was asked to return company assets She allegedly failed to return several critical documents and later joined Divrit Consultancy where according to the FIR she and Jain began misusing the firms sensitive datappThe FIR states that an email ID resembling the complainant firms official ID was created Aainaparshotam10gmailcom and was used to correspond with existing clients under false pretensesppppn edisplaystatusescheduleTimen ppevenueppn edisplaystatus escheduleTimen ppevenueppThe Tribune now published from Chandigarh started publication on February 2 1881 in Lahore now in Pakistan It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia a publicspirited philanthropist and is run by a trust comprising five eminent persons as trusteesThe Tribune the largest selling English daily in North India publishes news and views without any bias or prejudice of any kind Restraint and moderation rather than agitational language and partisanship are the hallmarks of the newspaper It is an independent newspaper in the real sense of the termThe Tribune has two sister publications Punjabi Tribune in Punjabi and Dainik Tribune in HindippRemembering Sardar Dyal Singh Majithiap