Elaborate Plan to Access Bank, Personal Data : Nidhi Razdan on Fake Harvard Offer
The former anchor in her statement published on NDTV detailed out in chronological order how she had been made to believe that she indeed got an opportunity at the Harvard University.
Former NDTV executive editor Nidhi Razdan. Photo: British High Commission/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0
Tech16/Jan/2021
New Delhi: In a detailed account after her announcement that she fell victim to a sophisticated phishing attack that lured her into thinking she had been hired as a journalism professor at Harvard University in the US, senior journalist and former
Nidhi Razdan, Phishing, And Three Hard Lessons
Phishing has become such a sophisticated form of social attack that even seasoned journalists are taken for a ride. outlookindia.com 2021-01-17T18:20:21+05:30
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Nidhi Razdan, a career journalist, became a victim of an elaborate phishing attack that made her quit her 21-year-old job and part with many of her personal details.
So, what is a phishing attack? Phishing is a social engineering attack, where the victim’s details and data are extracted by creating an elaborate story that the victim believes in. The victim is lulled into a make-belief story, wherein the victim willingly hands over her personal information to the initiator of the attack, believing that such an action is for her benefit.
Memers Have A Field Trip While Nidhi Razdan Struggles To Authenticate Her Harvard University Story Jan 16, 2021, 15:17 IST
People on social media are having a fun time while taking a dig at journalist Nidhi Razdan’s Harvard University story. Especially memers were the happiest as they got their new “Bakra.”
Nidhi Razdan announced that she had quit NDTV to take up a Professor s job at Harvard University. Razdan confirmed that she received an offer letter from Harvard and that is why decided on leaving her job after working for 21 years.
She claimed to be the victim of a phishing attack and said she received a fake offer letter. According to Razdan, her teaching tenure at Harvard was supposed to begin from September 2020 but was pushed to January 2021 due to the pandemic.
by Nidhi Razdan I still didn't imagine this was a massive fraud but thought it was lack of coordination between university departments. Back in June 2020, I had announced on Twitter that I was moving on from NDTV after nearly 21 years to join Harvard University as an Associate Professor to teach jo.
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