But Sunny Nehra, a 24-year-old engineering dropout, could not resist the lure of easy money, police say. 
According to Delhi Police cyber cell records, Nehra's list of victims reads out the who's who of e-commerce companies, from MakeMyTrip and Yatra.com to Amazon, Flipkart, Big Bazar, Reliance Digital, Myntra. com, Dominos Pizzas, Prestige, Titan, Provogue and Shoppers Stop. 
Nehra's game was up last week when a team of Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force busted a gang of five alleged hackers for allegedly duping thousands of international account holders by shopping through leaked data of credit cards. 
He is now in judicial custody. 'This is a classic case of a gifted mind taking up the criminal path,' said UP STF's additional superintendent Triveni Singh who arrested Nehra last week. 
'There are many young techies who are inspired from him. We have several such young criminals on our radar and will soon start a crackdown against them.' 
Describing his functioning, Singh said after finding loopholes in a payment gateway, Nehra would misuse the leaked data of international credit card users. 





Police claimed that Nehra had found loopholes in a payment gateways and was misusing the leaked data of international credit card users

'He loves travelling, staying in high-end hotels or resorts and travelling by air. Even his gang members maintains luxurious life and splurged money on expensive cars,' said the officer. 
The officer claimed that Nehra and his team digitally shoplifted e-vouchers, allegedly causing a loss of several crore to online shopping sites, payment gateways and credit card holders.
His followers on the internet still swear by him. Some of the netizens Mail Today spoke to said Nehra was inspired from international hacker Snowden. 





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But police suspect that instead of ethical hacking, Nehra was active in darknet community and assisted hackers in detecting vulnerable codes. 
The gang sold a large chunk of high-end gadgets to the members of their closed network at a cheaper rate, police said.
Nehra has also developed an online association with various hackers in India as well as abroad. He allegedly tied up with professional hackers in India, the Netherlands and Indonesia to hone in his skills. 
Bangalore Police suspect Nehra was involved in a recent case where a hacker had given a 72-hour deadline to an online company asking it to cough up $5,000 (Rs 3.22 lakh), failing which he would share their confidential information. 
The company received a threat mail from a person who claimed himself as Sunny Nehra who claimed he had hacked and downloaded the vouchers. 
The online firm is in the trade of issuing vouchers to the employees of various IT firms. The investigations are still on.


















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