Over 8,600 bank accounts linked to cybercriminals frozen in Jharkhand

A total of 8,674 bank accounts, allegedly linked to cybercriminals, have been frozen in Jharkhand on suspicion that these were being used for phishing activities, a CID official said on Tuesday.

The maximum of 2,002 accounts were frozen in Deoghar district, followed by 1,183 in Dhanbad and 959 in Ranchi, he said.

“We received the details of frozen accounts from the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) and prepared a district and bank-wise list of such information.