RI hacker nabbed

RI hacker nabbed

SINGAPORE (DPA): An Indonesian youth who hacked into the
computer server of a Singapore research and development institute
while studying in Australia was arrested on coming to the city-
state to study, it was reported on Saturday.

The 15-year-old boy, who was released on 10,000 Singapore
dollars (US$7,000) bail, was nabbed at his relative's apartment
and his new computer seized, The Straits Times said.

Police said the student hacked into the server at the Data
Storage Institute when he was in Australia during March and
April. The boy learned from an Internet chatroom that the
institute's network was vulnerable and could be hacked into
easily, they said.

He continued hacking into the system after arriving in
Singapore to study English and mathematics and was tracked down
by the police Computer Crime Branch.