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| A group of teenagers and one 27-year-old hacked into Tiket.com — one of the largest online travel agents in Indonesia — and siphoned Rp 4.1 billion ($308,000) worth of airline tickets from the website, the National Police said in Jakarta on Tuesday (04/04). (BeritaSatu Photo). |
Jakarta. A
group of teenagers and one 27-year-old hacked into Tiket.com — one of the
largest online travel agents in Indonesia — and siphoned Rp 4.1 billion
($308,000) worth of airline tickets from the website, the National Police said
in Jakarta on Tuesday (04/04).
The alleged
perpetrators were identified only by their initials. SH, who is 19-years-old
and identified by the police as the mastermind of the crime, admitted that he
made around Rp 600 million in proceeds from the act.
His
partner, MKU, also 19-years-old, admitted to making Rp 600 million. Two other
alleged perpetrators have also been identified: AI, 19 and NTM, 27.
SH admitted
to using the loot to buy expensive motorcycles.
"I
bought a Ducati motorcycle [...]. None of the money was used for investment
[purposes]," SH said at the National Police headquarters on Tuesday.
The police
said they may face up to 12 years in prison under Indonesia's Law on Electronic
Information and Transactions (ITE) revised in 2013.
Global
Network, the company behind Tiket.com, reported the case to the police in
November when it suspected someone hacked into Tiket.com and stole tickets
allotted for the budget airline Citilink Indonesia.
Airlines
usually set aside a ticket quota for each travel agent, and are usually paid
for the tickets in advance. In this case, the teenagers hacked into the website
and accessed Citilink's ticket pool.
"The
perpetrators had illegal access to Citilink Indonesia's server, using an
account owned by Global Network from Oct. 11 to 27, 2016," Brig. Gen.
Fadil Imran, the director of cyber crime at National Police's Criminal
Investigation Unit (Bareskrim) said on Tuesday.
The
perpetrators then sold the stolen tickets on Facebook, Fadil added.
MKU, AI and
NTM were arrested on March, 28 in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan. The police
nabbed SH in Ciputat, Banten two days later.
The case
shed light on security issues on Indonesia's booming online services industry.
"He
[SH] is quite sophisticated and the website was also not that hard to
hack," Adj. Comr. Idam Wasiadi of the cyber crime unit at Bareskrim said
last week.
Idam said
SH, who only finished middle school, taught himself using materials available
online to hack into various websites.
He honed
his skill by hacking into 4,237 foreign and local websites and defacing their
homepage. Among his victims are the National Police's website and app-based
ride-hailing service Go-Jek, Idam added.
Citilink
Indonesia, a low-cost subsidiary of Garuda Indonesia, said that the integrity
of its ticket security and customer's information was not compromised by the
hackers and the breach was only limited to the online agent, Tiket.com, Ageng
W. Leksono, corporate communication manager of Citilink told news outlet
detik.com.
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