Using Hacking Tools, These 2 Ex-Dj Break 8 Japanese Citizen Credit Cards To Billions Of Loss

The Directorate of Cyber Crime, Bareskrim Polri together with the Japanese Police attaches a cyber crime of breaking into a Japanese citizen's credit card/DOK ANTARA

JAKARTA - The National Police and the Japanese Police are working together to uncover criminal acts of hacking credit cards by conducting electronic transactions in several marketplaces in Sakura Country. Director of Cyber Crime (Dittipidisber) Bareskrim Polri Brigadier General Adi Vivid A Bachtiar said two perpetrators, namely SB, were arrested in Japan and DK in Yogyakarta. "Both of them are Indonesian citizens," said Vivid at the Jakarta Police Headquarters, quoted from Antara, Tuesday, August 8. This disclosure stems from an investigation conducted by the Japanese Police, based on reports of eight Japanese citizens who were victims of credit card hacking by the two suspects. In carrying out these illegal excesses, the perpetrator used hacking tools obtained from the 16shop page, one of the providers of hacking tools that is quite popular in the hacking world. Similar cases have been handled by the Dittipidsiber Bareskrim Polri in 2021 and 2022 with victims of Apple, Amazon, Paypal, Cashapp and American Express accounts with a total loss of Rp128 billion and spread across 70 countries. This Hacking tools, said Vivid, is a code that can be used to hack international electronic payments accounts, to credit cards operating around the world. "The code is used by hackers to retrieve personal data of account owners starting from credit card number data, email, password, KTP/NIK, passport, phone number and other supporting data," said Vivid. Para pelaku melakukan ilegal akses dalam pembelian barang-barang elektronik secara daring di Jepang dengan korban para pemilik akun marketplace B-Stock dan Tsukumo net shop yang menimbulkan kerugian sekitar Rp1,6 miliar. The actions were carried out by the two perpetrators from 2016 to 2021. The perpetrators used the results of the theft of the victim's data and information to carry out shopping activities in the marketplace. "The proceeds from the crime were then sold by the suspect SB, then part of the money from the sale was sent to the suspect DK in Indonesia," said Vivid. What is interesting about this case is that the perpetrators of SB and DK are old friends who have worked as disc jockeys (DJ) in Bali. Then, SB moved to work in Japan as a chef, while DK is still in Indonesia. DK is the mastermind behind the moderate crime perpetrator SB who is in Japan assigned by DK to activate his computer in Japan, after being actively controlled by DK. "The goal is to trick. The brains of criminals are in Indonesia, while computers to hack access are in Japan. After breaking into the access of shopping actors in the marketplace," said Vivid. The perpetrator was revealed, because one of the groceries apart from being sent by post was also sent to the SB address in Japan. So that the Japanese police managed to catch the first perpetrator, then it was revealed that there was another perpetrator with the initials DK in Indonesia. For their actions, the perpetrators were processed by separate law, SB was handled by the Japanese Police, while DK was handled by the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Police. DK was charged with multiple articles, namely Article 46 paragraph (1), (2), (3) in conjunction with Article 30 paragraph (1), (2), (3) of the ITE Law in the form of illegal access with a maximum penalty of eight years and a fine of Rp800 million. Then Article 48 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 32 paragraph (1) of the ITE Law regarding the modification of information and electronic documents, the threat of law eight years in prison and a fine of IDR 2 billion. Investigators also charged Article 51 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 35 of the ITE Law regarding manipulation as if it were authentic with a maximum threat of 12 years and a fine of Rp. 12 billion. "We also apply Article 363 of the Criminal Code concerning theft with a threat of five years in prison," said Head of Sub-Directorate II of the Dittipidsiber Bareskrim Polri Kombes Pol. Rizki Agung Prakoso. Japanese Police Attache Takayuki Miyagawa, who was present at the press conference, said that the disclosure of this case was the result of a collaboration between the Japanese Police and the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Police, which was initially investigated by the Japanese police. The Japanese Police and Bareskrim Polri have signed a cooperation (MoU) in handling transnational crimes.

"The Japanese Police and the National Police have signed an MoU in January, and this is the first collaboration after the signing of the cooperation," Miyagawa said. The suspect DK admitted that he did this because of economic motives.