{"id":969645,"date":"2025-10-27T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969645"},"modified":"2025-10-27T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:27:00","slug":"ludhiana-acps-phone-hacked-challan-payment-sought-from-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/27\/ludhiana-acps-phone-hacked-challan-payment-sought-from-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ludhiana:\u2009ACP\u2019s phone hacked; \u2018challan\u2019 payment sought from contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mobile phone of assistant commissioner of police (ACP), East, Sumit Sood of the Ludhiana police commissionerate has been hacked, with attackers accessing his contact list and sending fraudulent text messages with attached files to several people, including media personnel and police officials, while seeking payments for \u201cvehicle challans\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The messages, sent from the ACP\u2019s phone, falsely inform recipients that a \u201cvehicle challan\u201d has been issued against them, urging them to click on a payment link embedded below in the text message. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mobile phone of assistant commissioner of police (ACP), East, Sumit Sood of the Ludhiana police commissionerate has been hacked, with attackers accessing his contact list and sending fraudulent text messages with attached files to several people, including media personnel and police officials, while seeking payments for \u201cvehicle challans\u201d. The messages, sent from the ACP\u2019s phone, falsely inform recipients that a \u201cvehicle challan\u201d has been issued against them, urging them to click on a payment link embedded below in the text message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969645","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}