A few weeks back Reuters publish a story with a photo of arvind kumar misidentified as a hacker named sumit gupta (Owner of belltrox digital). Story was about the biggest hack for fire operation disclosed by citizen lab who target over 10,000 email account including journalists, investors and politicians
According to theprint "Whenfollowing up on the story, ThePrint met the man photographed in the Reuters‘ report who claimed he was not Sumit Gupta or a hacker.
When ThePrint asked the news agency to confirm the accuracy of the image accompanying the report, Reuters, after a review, responded on email saying: “The person in this image was incorrectly identified as Sumit Gupta. We regret the error, and have withdrawn the picture.”
The fact, it turned out, was Reuters had photographed Arvind Kumar, who runs a herbal medicine business at the same address listed for BellTroX InfoTech Services, a company identified as a mercenary hacking firm, also known as “BellTroX D|G|TAL Security.
Kumar told ThePrint that he had been bothered by a “foreigner” for his photograph, which was eventually carried in the initial Reuters report. After the news was picked up by several media outlets, Kumar was questioned by the police.
The Reuters story has since changed the image and now carries a message at the top of the story, “This June 9 story corrects to remove reference to speaking with Gupta at his office”."
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