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Pondy Govt Dental College bank account hacked, 3 months salary siphoned off, probe on

Chennai, Nov 4 (UNI) In a major security breach, the bank account of Puducherry Government Dental College was hacked by cryber crime fraudsters and three months' salary of staff, amounting to Rs 8.5 crore was siphoned off on Wednesday.
Sources told UNI that the the Puducherry Cyber Crime wing of the police has registered a case and are investigating after a formal complaint was lodged.
The bank account of Mahatma Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Dental Sciences (MGPGI), a the premier government dental college in Puducherry, was hacked and Rs 8.5 crore deposited as part of threee months' salary of its staff was stolen online by phising.
The incident has sent shock waves among the staff and the administration and the police are probing all angles to trace the origin of the crime.
This is the first online fraud reported in the union Territory in the recent past following which the government has started security audit of the accounts of its departments to prevent recurrence of such incidents.
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