Twenty-year-old man who hacked into a football star, Neymar’s bank accounts and stole sums of money totalling $40,000, has been arrested by Brazilian police.
Gatekeepers News reports that Police said the alleged hacker worked at an unnamed bank where the Paris St-Germain (PSG) and Brazil player and his business manager father had accounts.
The suspect was arrested on Wednesday “for defrauding bank clients”, a police statement said.
Although the police did not mention Neymar in the statement, the officer in charge of the case said it was the football star.
Fabio Pinheiro Lopes, while explaining how the alleged theft occurred to Brazilian TV show Brasil Urgente, said the suspect “got the password of his office colleague and stole small amounts of money from famous people with high net worth.”
“These people didn’t notice. He made (a transfer) of 10,000 (reais) (1,912.59 dollars), then another of 10,000, then 20,000, and then 50,0000 and the total came to 200,000.”
Lopes said the account affected was Neymar’s and that his father likely controlled the funds.
“When they discovered they called the bank. The bank reimbursed the victim and investigated who was behind it,” he said.
