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Jakarta police arrest hackers after FBI report
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Three suspects of an online blackmailing gang are brought to a press conference at the Jakarta Police headquarters in South Jakarta on March 13. (kompas.com/Sherly Puspita)
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he Jakarta Police's cybercrime unit revealed on Wednesday that it had arrested three alleged hackers, identified only as NA, ATP and KPS, members of the online blackmailing gang Surabaya Black Hat, after receiving reports from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in January.
Jakarta Police cybercrime unit head Adj. Sr. Comr. Roberto Pasaribu explained that IC3 was a major investigation body of the US Department of Justice’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
“The IC3 records all cybercrimes that occur all around the world. They observed that more than 3,000 accounts had been hacked throughout 2017,” he said as reported by kompas.com.
“Our cybercrime unit then immediately analyzed the report and, after two months of investigation, we discovered that there are six perpetrators and that they are located in Surabaya [East Java],” he said, adding that KPS admitted to the police that he had hacked some 600 websites.
Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Argo Yuwono previously said the cybercriminals had allegedly hacked local and international websites for data to use in a blackmail scheme. They had allegedly forcefully gained access to private computers and networks to gather information and data to blackmail prospective victims. (vla)
