Tamil Nadu Teen Created Bots Used To Send Bomb Threats To Bengaluru & Bhopal Schools: Police

The MP police have decided to issue notice to the teen to seek his help for getting tipoffs about the accused. 

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Chennai: A 17-year-old computer programmer from Tamil Nadu who developed bots for accessing multiple email IDs, has now landed him in trouble after miscreants used it for sending bomb threats to schools in Bengaluru and Bhopal. 

A Class 12 student developed the bots based on the request of a foreigner. He also received 200 Bitcoins as pay for developing the bots.  

Recently, using the technology, a few miscreants used it to send hoax threats from multiple email IDs, said a report on NDTV.

However, the issue came to light after the police started to investigate the case where hoax bomb threats were sent to eight schools in Bengaluru in April and similarly another email was sent to 11 prominent schools in Bhopal in May. The police found out that the same bots were used for sending the threats.

As a next step, the Bhopal police continued the probe which revealed that the IP address of the developer belonged to a Salem resident. They then zeroed down and found that the 17-year-old boy from Salem was the genesis of the mail. 

In the next two days, Bhopal police team traced the teenager. 

Now, the MP police have decided to issue notice to the teen to seek his help for getting tipoffs about the accused. 

The DCP Crime, Bhopal said, "Our teams have rushed to Tamil Nadu and we'll be issuing a notice to the teen to help us with the probe. The actual accused might be the foreign national who would have sent mails to Bhopal and Bengaluru schools."