Three
teens and an elderly 27-year-old hacked an online airplane ticket sales site
and managed to sell off a staggering $307,000 worth of tickets on Facebook.
What’d they do with the money? Dumbest ever when you find out considering the risk. Continue...........
The
hackers got access to the travel agent ticket pool for the budget airline
Citilink Indonesia and siphoned out the Rp 4.1 billion ($307,461 USD) worth of
tickets through the site Tiket.com, one of the largest of its kind in
Indonesia, JakartaGlobe reported. The hackers sold these tickets
on Facebook.
The
mastermind behind the hack, a 19-year-old identified by his initials as ‘SH,’ admitted
he personally collected some Rp 600 million (around $45,000), and his spending
habits were, uh, less than long term, as JakartaGlobe notes:
SH admitted to using
the loot to buy expensive motorcycles.“I bought a Ducati motorcycle [...]. None
of the money was used for investment [purposes],” SH said at the National
Police headquarters on Tuesday.
SH
only ever finished middle school, but got his experience in hacking by reading
online and practicing by defacing thousands of websites, including one belonging
to the National Police. He and his partners referred to themselves as the
“Gangtengers Crew,” which is a play on the word “ganteng” for handsome,
as Vice Indonesia explains.
The four hackers may
face up to 12 years in prison. It is not clear which Ducati SH purchased, or if
he felt it was worth it.
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