Thane, Jan 16 (PTI) An unidentified person allegedly hacked the cryptocurrency account of a 37-year-old man while he was in Maharashtra's Thane city for some work and siphoned off USD 15,097, worth about Rs 12 lakh, police said on Monday.

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The incident took on November 1, 2022, but the man complained to police last week, an official from Srinagar police station said.

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Based on the complaint, the Srinagar police here registered a case on Saturday against unidentified person under Indian Penal Code Section 420 (cheating) and provisions of the Information Technology Act, he said.

The victim, a resident of Kandivali in neighbouring Mumbai, had come to Thane for some work on November 1 when someone allegedly hacked his crypto account online and siphoned off the amount, which was found to have been directly transferred into the bank account of a company, the official said.

The victim did not give any reason for registering the complaint after two months, the police said, adding they were conducting a probe into the case.

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