19 Year Old Hacker Hacked Into Airline Website And Steals $ 150,000

19-Year-Old Hacker - Hacked Into Airline Website And Steals $ 150,000

InShortViral: The adolescent from China is accused of hacking into the site of one of the national airlines to steal cash of the passengers. The total amount received by the 19-year-old hacker is about $ 150 000.

The adolescent from China is accused of hacking into the site of one of the national airlines to steal cash of the passengers. The total amount received by the 19-year-old hacker is about $ 150 000.

This young hacker has gained access to the private data of more than 1.5 million passengers. Flyer sent reports on revocation of their flight and the need to pay an additional fee for booking new tickets. Thus, the criminal succeeded to collect more than one million yuan, and the airline has experienced large damages related to a refund angry passengers. The site is under the control of a hacker in the period from July 31 to August 20 this year, but the suspect was arrested just this month. The identity of the culprit and the victim airlines were not disclosed.

19 Year Old Hacker Hacked Into Airline Website And Steals $ 150,000

19-year-old hacker attack online airline ticket sales system, illegal downloading large numbers of information and then sending text messages to passengers with false statement and lied “flight canceled” Meal tickets attracted travelers to pay additional fees, cheated hundreds of passengers. Bank card is not from the body, but the continuous theft of funds on the card, the original bank card connecting online payment account also faced problems, by the network theft gangs utilize the vulnerability to steal user information from the website.

Yesterday morning, the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Bureau held a “safety net 2016” special action network fully launch press conference to announce a number of typical cases (like the current cases). At the meeting, the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Bureau Police Corps announced that from today until the end of June next year, and organized network security special operations, code-named “Security Network 2016”.

Guangzhou cyber police investigation found the suspects by scanning the first airline ticket sales B2B system vulnerabilities, brute two reseller account, and then use the agent account login booking system, use the page information in order to obtain passenger information X-SQL a request vulnerabilities hackers crawler software using illegal downloads 1,600,000 passengers order information contains flight number, name, identity card and mobile phone numbers but due to airline passengers caused refund more than 80,000 yuan in direct economic losses.

“These suspects are hacking through software I have written, they downloaded the passenger order information is true, the flight did not take off before.” Police investigators said the software does not require the preparation of a particularly high level, from Cases This approach is not particularly difficult. “The main aspects of loopholes or the company, for example, the suspect cracks 1,600,000 information, in fact, often times the equivalent of 1.6 million inquiries. There are loopholes in the management of the company would be considered normal inquiries.”