RI youth in court on hacking charges

RI youth in court on hacking charges

SINGAPORE (DPA): An Indonesian youth faces 16 charges of unauthorized computer access and modifications after admitting he hacked into the server of a Singapore research and development institute from Australia, it was reported on Friday.

The case involving the 15-year-old student is the first in the city-state of a person being tried for hacking into a local server or website from abroad.

The teenager admitted in Juvenile Court on Thursday accessing and modifying the Data Storage Institute's system four times and altering the content in another company's server illegally, the Straits Times said.

Deputy Public Prosecutor David Chew told the court the boy became interested in hacking while studying in Australia between May 1999 and April.