Binny Bansal's email hacked, $80k sought

BENGALURU: E-commerce major Flipkart has lodged a police complaint that its CEO Binny Bansal's official email account was hacked and two mails were sent from it to the company's CFO asking for transfer of $80,000.

Cyber crime police describe it as a case of email spoofing, wherein messages are sent from forged addresses. Investigators have found the emails were shot off from Hong Kong and Canada using a server in Russia, CID sources said.

The emails, carrying the same message, were sent to Sanjay Baweja, CFO of Flipkart, at 11.33am on March 1.Surprised by the nature of the emails, Baweja crosschecked with Bansal, only to find out they were a fraud.