{"id":1043555,"date":"2026-10-15T09:49:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T04:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043555"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T04:37:14","slug":"hyderabad-supermarket-loses-rs-2-7-crore-in-ceo-impersonation-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/15\/hyderabad-supermarket-loses-rs-2-7-crore-in-ceo-impersonation-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyderabad: Supermarket loses Rs 2.7 crore in CEO impersonation scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A supermarket allegedly lost 2.7 crore after fraudsters used a malicious ZIP file to compromise its accountant\u2019s phone and impersonated the company\u2019s CEO on WhatsApp to induce money transfers. <\/p>\n<p>Hyderabad cyber crime police registered a case after a 36-year-old businessman and partner in the supermarket lodged a complaint, stating that the accountant opened a ZIP file received on WhatsApp from a company employee\u2019s number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A supermarket allegedly lost 2.7 crore after fraudsters used a malicious ZIP file to compromise its accountant\u2019s phone and impersonated the company\u2019s CEO on WhatsApp to induce money transfers. Hyderabad cyber crime police registered a case after a 36-year-old businessman and partner in the supermarket lodged a complaint, stating that the accountant opened a ZIP file received on WhatsApp from a company employee\u2019s number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043592,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043555\/revisions\/1043592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}