The Ghaziabad Police in India have arrested Naveen Pal, an official working for the Minister of Finance, for passing on classified information related to the ministry and the G20 meeting to a hacker allegedly disguised as a woman in Karachi, Pakistan.

According to India Today, Pal met the woman online on social media and both began talking on Whatsapp.

The police reported that Pal had several confidential financial documents in his phone, with the files saved under the name ‘secret’.

The woman’s phone number was traced to Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly, but the IP address was found to be from Karachi.

This is the second recent incident of an Indian official being duped by a Pakistani hacker into sending confidential information. An Indian defence scientist Pradeep Kurulkar, had been exchanging texts and voice messages with a woman named Zara, sending her confidential defence information on phone.