Witnesses grilled about KPU hackers

Witnesses grilled about KPU hackers

JAKARTA: Jakarta Police have started to summon and question
witnesses in their search for clues to the identity of the
General Elections Commission (KPU) website hackers.

"We have questioned three witnesses, who worked in the KPU
information technology (IT) department," city police cyber crimes
division chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Petrus Reinhard Golose disclosed on
Monday at Jakarta Police Headquarters.

He added the police would summon more witnesses this week.

Petrus said the KPU had a very secure data center, so he
discounted fears that hackers might eventually break into the
database to disrupt the vote-counting process.

Hackers attacked the KPU website and managed to change the
names of political parties into joke names.

Earlier on Sunday, head of KPU's IT department Akhiar Oemry
said that he had a clue to the hackers' identity.

However, Sr. Comr. Edmon Ilyas, director of the special crimes
division under which the cyber crime division works, said it was
not easy to hunt for the perpetrators of cyber crime. -- JP