Jail Sentence For Filipino National
Bandar Seri Begawan - Brunei's court dealt with its first cybercrime offence Tuesday (May 4), which saw a Filipino national convicted and sentenced.
The Commercial Crime Investigation Division of the Royal Brunei Police Force yesterday said 29-year-old Raymond G Azarcon, was brought before the Magistrate's Court on May 4 under the charges of hacking into a wireless Internet connection without authorisation and using a stolen credit card number to make $2,720 worth of online purchases.
According to a Royal Brunei Police Force press statement, early last month, Azarcon, who lived next door to his landlord's house, hacked into a wireless Internet connection that was owned by his landlord without his knowledge and authority.
Once inside his landlord's system, Azarcon visited a web site and "intentionally cheated the owner of the web site by falsely representing himself in which he used a stolen credit card number to make an online purchase and thereby dishonestly inducing the owner (of the web site) to approve the online purchase worth $2,720".
His illegal online shopping spree began to arouse suspicion by April 8 when the web site owner noticed that Alarcon continued to make more online purchases with the same credit card number and same username, which subsequently made him lodge a police report on April 12.
On Tuesday, Azarcon was read his charges in court for committing an offence punishable under Section 6(1)(a) of the Computer Misuse Act and under Section 420 of the Penal Code.
He was found guilty and sentenced to six months' imprisonment for his first offence and received a further 22.5 months' jail term for his illegal credit card misadventure, which will be served out concurrently.
"The general trend of cybercrime is on the rise," acknowledged officers of the Commercial Crime Investigation Division, adding: "this case is one of the examples how hackers intruded into someone's private property by tapping into their wireless connection and exposing him to wrongful allegations, thus causing an innocent person distress and unnecessary inconvenience".
They also advised Internet users: "Use some encryption on data and use of password authentication to access the Internet. Also changing the administrator's password for one's router is very important because certain brands of routers have certain default passwords that hackers know very well."
The RBPF's cybercrime division used the opportunity, to urge the public to lodge reports upon discovery of any suspicious transactions or any activities related to the misuse or hacking of Internet access and any other cybercrime-related offences.-- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin
Bandar Seri Begawan - Brunei's court dealt with its first cybercrime offence Tuesday (May 4), which saw a Filipino national convicted and sentenced.
The Commercial Crime Investigation Division of the Royal Brunei Police Force yesterday said 29-year-old Raymond G Azarcon, was brought before the Magistrate's Court on May 4 under the charges of hacking into a wireless Internet connection without authorisation and using a stolen credit card number to make $2,720 worth of online purchases.
According to a Royal Brunei Police Force press statement, early last month, Azarcon, who lived next door to his landlord's house, hacked into a wireless Internet connection that was owned by his landlord without his knowledge and authority.
Once inside his landlord's system, Azarcon visited a web site and "intentionally cheated the owner of the web site by falsely representing himself in which he used a stolen credit card number to make an online purchase and thereby dishonestly inducing the owner (of the web site) to approve the online purchase worth $2,720".
His illegal online shopping spree began to arouse suspicion by April 8 when the web site owner noticed that Alarcon continued to make more online purchases with the same credit card number and same username, which subsequently made him lodge a police report on April 12.
On Tuesday, Azarcon was read his charges in court for committing an offence punishable under Section 6(1)(a) of the Computer Misuse Act and under Section 420 of the Penal Code.
He was found guilty and sentenced to six months' imprisonment for his first offence and received a further 22.5 months' jail term for his illegal credit card misadventure, which will be served out concurrently.
"The general trend of cybercrime is on the rise," acknowledged officers of the Commercial Crime Investigation Division, adding: "this case is one of the examples how hackers intruded into someone's private property by tapping into their wireless connection and exposing him to wrongful allegations, thus causing an innocent person distress and unnecessary inconvenience".
They also advised Internet users: "Use some encryption on data and use of password authentication to access the Internet. Also changing the administrator's password for one's router is very important because certain brands of routers have certain default passwords that hackers know very well."
The RBPF's cybercrime division used the opportunity, to urge the public to lodge reports upon discovery of any suspicious transactions or any activities related to the misuse or hacking of Internet access and any other cybercrime-related offences.-- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin
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