Know the man who hacked more than 900 email accounts across the world

New Delhi: Amit Tiwari is an engineering dropout from Pune and a global hacker, he is the son of a retired Indian Army colonel Vikram Tiwari. He resides at the secluded Florida Estate in Mundhwa, a sprawling society comprising flats and bungalows in Pune East. He is a 2003 dropout of the Bharti Vidyapeeth College of Engineering in Katraj.After dropping college he turned to cyber crime to fund the lifestyle he was living. Amit is very famous among the community of cyber experts from his beginnings as a hacker to his tryst with the Russian mafia's cyber crime arm, Russian Business Network that started out in Romania before spreading globally.Amit was arrested last week for hacking more than 900 email accounts and was taken to a court in Saket, Delhi on Saturday, but could not be produced due to time constraints.His arrest was the result of an international investigation coordinated and conducted by the CBI, the American Federal Bureau of Investigation, Combating Organized Crime (DCCO) of Romania.According to reports Tiwari committed his first cyber crime in 2002-03, when he hacked into Mumbai-based credit card processing company, C C Avenue, and defrauded it of Rs 9 lakh. However, the law caught up with Tiwari and he was arrested for defrauding C C Avenue during his second year of the engineering course. Tiwari remained in police custody for a very short duration.After the release Tiwari was approached by Russian Business Network and since then he was working with it. His clientele includes everyone From jilted lovers to corporate entities, willing to pay his fees ($250-500). He operated through two websites — www.hirehacker.net and www.anonymity.com. He used to be paid via Western Union money transfer and Paypal.