March 01
A 34-year-old software engineer was shocked to find ‘Join Hizbul Mujahideen’, in his Wi-Fi network at his home on the night of February 24.
Bewildered at the network’s name, the man immediately switched off his phone and refreshed the network. However, the network continued to remain active. Later, the man reported the matter to the police.
After failing to gain any credible inputs with regard to the matter, the local police communicated the matter to the local cybercrime unit and other security agencies. The investigating officers created a radius within which the Wi-Fi network was available.
With that information, the team created a map and shortlisted several addresses. With the help of the addresses, the team searched houses to verify the Wi-Fi network.
The inhabitants of the houses were inquired. Later the local internet service providers were contacted to find out the potential customers who were using the network.
Upon further investigation, the officers found that the Wi-Fi connection was installed in a telecom shop in the vicinity on November 26, 2018.
According to a report by the Times of India, the owner of the shop identified as Gulshan Tiwari (60), a native of Lucknow, confirmed the same but feigned ignorance about the name of the network.
Finally, the mystery was unravelled when Tiwari’s younger son admitted that he had allegedly chosen the name for their family Wi-Fi network.
The 25-year-old reportedly revealed that the ‘scary’ name was adopted after he was fed up with random people using their internet. As of now, no case has been registered in this regard as nothing suspicious was found.
The police advised the family to change the username.