webfact Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 Deputy mayor held for hacking police database By Suriya Patathayo The Nation A deputy mayor in Phayao's Chun district was arrested over unauthorised access to the Royal Thai Police's computer system to perform criminal background checks on 500 people for Bt1,000 each, the police said on Wednesday. Following a tip-off about unauthorised police database access to sell criminal background information, Tambon Wiang Law deputy mayor Somchai Khemphetch, 37, was arrested while accessing the database from a condominium in Bangkok's Bang Khen district, said Immigration Bureau chief Pol Lt-Gen Surachet Hakpal. Surachet is deputy director of the Technology Crime Suppression Centre. A police probe found that the suspect had obtained passwords for five accounts belonging to the ranks deputy inspector up to superintendent of Pathum Thani's Thanyaburi and Muang Nakhon Pathom police. Surachet said investigators said were examining whether the five officers were involved, who had bought the information and what it was used for. The police chief said that ahead of the general election, confidential information could be used in many ways. Somchai was initially charged for violating the Computer Act by illegally accessing the data, which carries a jail term of up to two years and a Bt40,000 fine. Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30364059 -- © Copyright The Nation 2019-02-14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Bowman Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 2 hours ago, webfact said: perform criminal background checks on 500 people for Bt1,000 each I'm confused here. Years ago, I had a Thai police check and I think it was free or at most a hundred Baht or so. Why would a Thai pay B1,000 for access to the same database? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeneeds Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 unscrupulous intentions ! maybe now he will be elected cell manager, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossy Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 Isn't that what deputy mayors are for? . . . just keeping a watchful eye on security, now that Big Joke's so busy doing this, that and t'other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisinth Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 1 hour ago, missoura said: I'm confused here. Years ago, I had a Thai police check and I think it was free or at most a hundred Baht or so. Why would a Thai pay B1,000 for access to the same database? That I assume was a police check on yourself. I think what is happening here is criminal checks being carried out on individuals (other than the person asking for them) to dig up the dirt to use against them. For whatever reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorecard Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 59 minutes ago, chrisinth said: That I assume was a police check on yourself. I think what is happening here is criminal checks being carried out on individuals (other than the person asking for them) to dig up the dirt to use against them. For whatever reason. Or seniors of one party looking for dirt on candidates of other parties to criticize the other party / their candidate(s). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisinth Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 1 minute ago, scorecard said: Or seniors of one party looking for dirt on candidates of other parties to criticize the other party / their candidate(s). Yep, that's certainly what they are looking at in the OP reference the upcoming elections. Reason I noted 'for whatever reason' in my post; too many variants of reasons to list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxLee Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 4 hours ago, webfact said: Deputy mayor held for hacking police database That was easy, if the password was 12345678 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackcab Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 2 hours ago, missoura said: I'm confused here. Years ago, I had a Thai police check and I think it was free or at most a hundred Baht or so. Why would a Thai pay B1,000 for access to the same database? The difference is you got information about yourself. The news article is about obtaining information about other people without their knowledge or consent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorecard Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 29 minutes ago, chrisinth said: Yep, that's certainly what they are looking at in the OP reference the upcoming elections. Reason I noted 'for whatever reason' in my post; too many variants of reasons to list. And again examples of the lack of trust, lack of professionalism, lack of proper security of passwords held by senior cops, and again a good reason why the general public should be pushing total police reform. And by the way where's some comment from the top national cop? As seems to be his 'normal' situation, unseen for months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmsally Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 17 minutes ago, MaxLee said: That was easy, if the password was 12345678 Beat me to it !! Or 123456 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorecard Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 20 minutes ago, MaxLee said: That was easy, if the password was 12345678 Sorry, it was passwordpassword Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercman24 Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 hey get out of my bangkok bank account Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipButty Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 Are they still running on Window's 98 copy version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipButty Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 1 hour ago, scorecard said: Sorry, it was passwordpassword penis sorry to short Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solinvictus Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 1 hour ago, scorecard said: And again examples of the lack of trust, lack of professionalism, lack of proper security of passwords held by senior cops, and again a good reason why the general public should be pushing total police reform. And by the way where's some comment from the top national cop? As seems to be his 'normal' situation, unseen for months. Yeah, I feel that personal data from telecommunications especially TRUE and within the judicial system here in Thailand are compromised often and we see it pop up time to time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick220675 Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 7 hours ago, webfact said: criminal background checks on 500 people for Bt1,000 each, 500,000 baht to dig up dirt on people. Could it be blackmail? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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