Two police officers are facing punishment on charges of selling ‘extremely sensitive’ personal data of citizens, such as NID details and phone call records, to criminals online. Major General Ziaul Ahsan, director general of the National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre (NTMC), said the two police officials used to sell the information via Facebook and Telegram. The NTMC identified the leak and wrote to the home ministry for the two officials’ punishment. Asked how the data from NIP were taken out, Ziaul said: “We don’t have any weaknesses here. Baker also told TechCrunch that it appears that the two agents sent the information to the administrator of at least one Telegram group, who then attempted to sell it.
