A Kannada film actress was recently in the news for filing a police complaint alleging that unknown persons had morphed and circulated “nude” pictures of her on social media. Some months back, a legislator from a constituency near Bengaluru had approached the police against hackers who had siphoned off Rs 190,000 from his bank account.
These cases made news because the victims were well-known personalities. Otherwise, cyber crime has become so routine in India’s IT capital that it hardly caused a ripple–1,001 cases were registered in 2015, close to three a day. Most
