Hacking horrors

HACKING is a fast growing crime in Fiji with police confirming that locals have lost more than $1million because of cybercrime in the past three years.

Fiji Police Force Cybercrime Unit head Inspector Epi Veimosoi said yesterday that in the past three years, they had registered 120 cybercrime cases, of which 20 involved hacking.

Insp Veimosoi said hacking was a reality in Fiji where local and foreign hackers had hacked into the bank accounts of people and businesses.

He said police investigations revealed that in Fiji, some disgruntled employees who had lost their jobs were hacking into the bank accounts of their former companies.

“These are the types of people who hack back into their accounts and delete or damage the system just out of anger toward the employers,” Insp Veimosoi said. “Such parties intend to destroy or cripple their targets for the personal satisfaction of seeing them (employers) suffer the effects,” he said.

Insp Veimosoi said personal bank accounts of Fijians were also being targeted by foreign hackers who obtained bank account details from people via emails, social networks, text messages or phone calls.

“Even Fijians are going overseas and hacking back into the accounts of people here. They leave the country after gathering all the information and hack into the accounts from overseas,” he said.

Insp Veimosoi said police had referred some cases to International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) for further investigations as perpetrators were hacking into local accounts from countries like China and Ghana.

He said credit card hacking was also common in Fiji whereby card holders had lost significant amounts of money after exposing their card details.

He said the force had enough resources to determine the cases and had launched investigations.

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