Hyderabad: Cybercrime police arrested two accused in a major corporate extortion racket, targeting Hetero Group of Companies, one of India’s largest pharmaceutical organizations based in Hyderabad .

According to the police, the accused Gadi Manikanta and Yendapalli Jessy Sudarshan were involved in a highly sophisticated extortion and cyber-intimidation racket.

A representative of the company filed a complaint after a senior employee received an anonymous ransom demand of USD 250 million.

Claiming to possess “confidential” and “damaging” data about the company, the emails threatened that if ransom were not paid, the fake information would be sent to the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA).

The accused created fake email accounts to impersonate USFDA officials while sen

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