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Police nab teacher for hacking govt database
A noncontract teacher of an elementary school in Banyuwangi has been detained for allegedly hacking the civil service database and selling the stolen data for US$8,000.
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Stock illustration of hacking (Unsplash/Towfiqu Barbhuiya) (Unsplash/Towfiqu Barbhuiya)
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he National Police apprehended earlier this month a 25-year-old noncontract teacher in Banyuwangi, East Java, for illegally accessing the database of the National Civil Service Agency (BKN) and selling the data online.
Cybercrimes director Brig. Gen. Himawan Bayu Ajat of the National Police's Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim) told a press conference on Tuesday that the teacher, identified by his initials BAG, gained unauthorized access to the BKN’s servers by obtaining a BKN officer’s login credentials from BreachForums, a dark web platform that trades in stolen data.
BAG then downloaded 6.3 gigabytes (GB) of data from the BKN’s servers, including sample data of civil servants in an unnamed province, and uploaded them to text storage site Pastebin.com.
He allegedly advertised the data by uploading samples to BreachForums and his account on messaging platform Telegram.
“[From the sale of BKN data], BAG made a profit of US$8,000 [Rp 120 million],” Himawan said, as quoted by Kompas.com.
The cybercrimes director also highlighted that BAG, who held an education degree, managed to hack into government and private databases without any formal training in information technology, and had instead learned how to hack via the internet.
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