[ISN] Case of teen hacking suspect sent to Tokyo prosecutors

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Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 23:28:42 PDT

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    http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20030611a8.htm
    
    [http://www.zone-h.org/en/defacements/filter/filter_defacer=Sunakuzira/ - WK]
    
    The Japan Times
    June 11, 2003
    
    Tokyo police on Tuesday turned over to prosecutors their case against 
    a 15-year-old high school student suspected of hacking into some 140 
    Web sites in 23 countries and regions and defacing them with slogans 
    opposing the war in Iraq.
    
    According to the cybercrime unit of the Metropolitan Police 
    Department, the youth, who lives in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, 
    hacked into the Web sites of private firms, government organs and 
    educational institutions in Asia, the United States and Europe. The 
    teen holds the dubious honor of having caused the most damage by a 
    Japan-based hacker, they said.
    
    According to investigators, the teen said he began studying hacking 
    techniques when he was in the second year of junior high school 
    because he admired computer hackers.
    
    Police said he told them that he and a friend started trying to hack 
    into computers around November because they wanted to write antiwar 
    messages.
    
    "I first started hacking into Web sites in the U.S. and Britain, but 
    after a while, it didn't matter where the sites were," the youth was 
    quoted as saying. "I was happy to see my techniques improving."
    
    According to investigations, the student used a personal computer at 
    his home to set up a so-called attack program to alter the contents of 
    a Web site in Slovakia at around 2:40 p.m. March 28.
    
    Using this program, he allegedly went through a server in Thailand to 
    alter the contents of a Web site managed by a company employee in 
    Tokyo's Setagaya Ward to make a message reading "stop the war" appear 
    on the site.
    
    The teen always signed his work with the name "Sunakuzira," police 
    said.
    
    He apparently downloaded the attack program from the Internet and used 
    the server in Thailand to find foreign sites without being traced.
    
    Police discovered the teen's hacking work while trolling the Net in 
    search of cybercrimes and tracked him down through his transmission 
    records.
    
    
    
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