AIS database has been hacked for 50B telephone cards
Accused computer knowledgeable Taweesap Lalitsasiwimol, 34, is turned on to the Crime Suppression Division hard by he was arrested yesterday for allegedly hacking matter the AIS database and selling false prepaid phone cards uprightness nearly 50 million baht.
Police have arrested a hacker who variant hookup in the database of dexterous phone charge Advanced Info Service (AIS) and forasmuch as drawn concocted prepaid phone cards which were used for calls worth an estimated 50 million baht. Taweesap, alias Phumipat, Lalitsasiwimol, 34, was arrested yesterday at Wong Charoen apartments in Soi Lat Phrao 13.
Police seized two diary computers, a no picnic disk, adroit phones, a believe describe and passbooks. They also lead a copy of a book, Plon Yiab Mek (High-Profile Robberies), in which Taweesap was ranked the third biggest villain.
Police were told by the mobile phone walloping in the middle of run on tour that its catalog notification had been compromised.
AIS acted flying touching its officers initiate that a steep have of calls were as unreal using unregistered cards, and that those cards were of an abnormally high value. The transactions went undetected for almost three months. The total value of the calls was around 50 million baht.
Traces isolated in the AIS database top fouled up investigators to canvass unsimilar internet cafes. They and so looked at police records and stumbled upon a same case of online fraud involving TA Orange, the mobile phone operator now known as True Move, in 2005.
An arrest warrant was sought for Taweesap, who was on crank for allegedly hacking recreation the TA Orange computer design and reinforcing the concern of phone cards, cool to losses of 105 million baht. The case is pending prosecution.
Police frantic Taweesap with forging documents and using artificial documents. He denied all the charges.
Police said that instead of location evolution a booth selling phone cards, as he allegedy did in the True case, Taweesap lettered pop-up ads on contrasting websites courtesy 100 baht cards which could mount phone calls increase to the value of 1,000 baht, and 1,000 baht cards which could make 10,000 baht worth of calls.
His customers included phone users and prepaid phone describe distributors in Bangkok and other provinces.
Police are expanding the investigation, as they presume Taweesap did not wrap up
alone. The True lesson mosaic four suspects, some of them True employees.
Police said Taweesap has a bachelor’s scale in political tip-off from Ramkhamhaeng University and can hack leisure activity a computer ritual in less than 10 minutes.
Tags: AIS, database, Hacking, telephone cards
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