http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailcity.asp?fileid=20060523.C02&irec=2 The Jakarta Post Jakarta May 23, 2006 The owner of a small computer shop in Mangga Dua shopping mall, Central Jakarta, was able to get through the electronic defense system of one of the city's major banks, police said Monday. The man, identified only as TL, entered fictitious credit card transactions into the system of the city's second largest bank in terms of assets, Bank Central Asia (BCA). The suspect did not use any sophisticated technology. He just used seven cards to authorize 12 transactions totaling Rp 425 million (US$47,222). Most of the Visa and Mastercard cards were issued by foreign banks, including Prudential, Westpac and ANZ. Police suspect TL got the credit card numbers from recording the details of customers' past transactions, though there is also a possibility he broke into the bank's computer system. "He made all the transactions within an hour, which aroused the suspicions of BCA, as the card claimer," said the chief of the Jakarta Police's fiscal and monetary crimes unit, Adj. Sr. Comr. Aris Munandar. BCA later contacted the card holders, who are mostly non-nationals living abroad. They had no knowledge of the transactions. The bank canceled the transactions and reported the case to police in March. The suspect was arrested last week, police said. The vice chairman of the Indonesian Telecommunications Community, Mas Wigrantara, told The Jakarta Post that at least 1,000 incidents of e-banking fraud, virus uploads and hacking activities had been reported in the last six months. "Although the number is significant, banks are reluctant to report cases to police or the government because they are worried it will affect their reputation and the public will no longer trust e-banking," he said, adding that they preferred to report cases to their own security consultants. Wigrantara said the country already had the Indonesia Computer Security Incident Response Team, but it was not having much of an impact because of the limited number of cases reported to it. (06) _________________________________ Attend the Black Hat Briefings and Training, Las Vegas July 29 - August 3 2,500+ international security experts from 40 nations, 10 tracks, no vendor pitches. www.blackhat.com
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