East Java Police Arrests Foreign Credit Card Hacking Group To Buy Bitcoin

SURABAYA - Sub-Directorate V of Cyber Ditreskrimsus East Java Police arrested a gang of credit card hackers or what is often called carding. In this case, four people have been named as suspects.

"The four perpetrators of illegal access are interrelated and have their respective roles," said Head of Public Relations of the East Java Police, Kombes Gatot Repli Handoko, at the East Java Police Headquarters in Surabaya, Monday, June 7.

Gatot explained that the case was revealed in early April 2021. At that time, the actions of the four suspects, namely HTS, AD, RH and RS, broke into a number of victims' credit cards from abroad.

According to Gatot, the four perpetrators compactly spent the stolen proceeds through other people's credit cards to buy Bitcoin. They claim to be tempted by the various things that Elon Musk's company has to offer.

"So, HTS (assigned) to take credit card accounts, then process them. The processed products are bought Bitcoin Crypto," he said.

Meanwhile, the East Java Regional Police's Wadirkrimsus, AKBP Zulham Effendi, added that the four of them had their respective roles in action.

HTS as the coordinator of the other suspects has the role of accommodating all data that can be used as a means of carrying out illegal access acts, starting to accommodate, send, and sell by buying Paxful Accounts (containing data belonging to other people)

AD as the executor, processes various data sent from the HTS suspect to become a product that can be cashed by receiving account data and email result data containing Credit Card Data (CC Data) belonging to another person from the HTS suspect.

RH as the data collector, has a role in finding credit card data to be sent to the suspected HTS and also as a receiver for illegally accessed goods.

RS has a role as a provider of Paxful Accounts (data belonging to others) in the form of a marketplace or E-Wallet that functions as a place to buy, sell, and store various cryptocurrencies or digital currencies (Bitcoin) sent to HTS suspects.

Zulham explained, on April 19, the first arrest was made of the suspect HTS while he was at Terminal 1 Domestic Departure of Juanda Airport Surabaya. Furthermore, the suspect and his evidence were brought to the East Java Regional Police.

During the development, officers arrested the suspect AD as the executor in Cilacap Regency, Central Java. A few days later, the suspect RH was secured by officers in Pasuruan Regency and a hospital in Solo City, Central Java.

Based on the results of the investigation, it was found that the hospital as the provider of Paxful accounts used data belonging to other people by selling them for Rp. 200 thousand. "For a year already, fortunately they have hundreds of millions. Approximately Rp300 million, as well as other roles," he said.

Zulham emphasized that the four of them cooperated and interacted with each other in carrying out their actions. The proceeds of the proceeds were used for the personal interests of each perpetrator.

"We hope that this case will serve as a lesson for network players throughout Indonesia not to do things like this. To be sure, they will process this credit card first. There is another role for the account to be given by HTS, the email data on the credit card is processed after having economic value made to buy Bitcoin," he said.

In addition to meeting their personal needs, the suspects also included some of the proceeds in the stock market 9 times. When they run out of funds, they continue to hack credit cards and accounts belonging to foreigners.

The four suspects were charged with Article 30 Paragraph (2) Juncto Article 46 Paragraph (2) and Article 32 Paragraph (2) Juncto Article 48 Paragraph (2) RI Law Number 19 Year 2016 concerning amendments to RI Law Number 11 Year 2008 concerning Information and Transactions Electronic, and or Article 480 of the Criminal Code or Articles 55 and 56 of the Criminal Code.