inp.polri.go.id - Bandung. The West Java Regional Police's Sub-Directorate of Cybercrime and Criminal Investigation succeeded in uncovering and arresting two perpetrators of theft of customer data from savings and loan cooperatives, which caused hundreds of millions of rupiah in losses.

  In his explanation, the Director of the Special Criminal Investigation of the West Java Regional Police, Pol. Grand Commissioner Arif Rahman Hakim said that we, Sub-Directorate V of Special Cybercrime and Criminal Investigation, West Java Regional Police, succeeded in uncovering a case of syndicate mode of theft of cooperative customer data that cost hundreds of millions of rupiah. In action, the perpetrators entered the cooperative application to transfer customers' money to digital wallets.

  These suspects carried out illegal access, then they also manipulated in the form of processed data and then made a registration request to the application of one of the Savings and Loans Cooperatives on behalf of legitimate cooperative members with precise registration numbers, added the Director of Special Criminal Investigation at the West Java Regional Police.

  "In disclosing this case, we managed to apprehend two perpetrators with the initials MR and MF. They are known to be convicts of drug cases in Banyuasin Prison, South Sumatra. in contrast, MR is in charge of registering to a cooperative application called E-Channel. From their actions, it turned out that only five customer accounts had been hacked, then the money was transferred to a digital wallet that MF had previously created. As for the losses that we have identified so far, of course, they reach billions of rupiah, but what has been identified is approximate Rp. 300 million," concluded the Directorate of Special Criminal Investigation at the West Java Regional Police Headquarters, Thursday (12/02/2021).

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