CYBER POLICE doubt that an army officer whose alias is 9near had purchased personal data of 55 million Thais from the dark web for 8,000 baht with the intention to resell online as claimed, Naewna newspaper said today (Apr. 12). Pol. Lt. Gen. Worawat Watnakornbancha, cyber police chief, and Pol. Maj. Gen. Wiwat Khamchamnan,
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9near hacker is an army sergeant, has been nabbed
CYBER police have arrested an army sergeant on the charges of using the alias 9near to hack and then threaten to release personal data of 55 million Thai citizens, Thai Rath newspaper said today (Apr. 7). The suspect, only identified as Mr. Khemarat who is a resident of Nonthaburi, had obtained the name and
Read moreHacker holding personal data of 55 million people is a Thai: Minister
CYBER police now know that the hacker whose pseudonym is 9near and had threatened to release personal data of 55 million Thai citizens is a Thai, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon (Apr. 3). Digital Economy and Society Minister Chaiwut Thanakmanusorn said the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB), or cyber police, believes the Thai hacker’s
Read morePoliceman suspected of selling data to call centre suspended
A POLICEMAN who holds the rank of police lieutenant colonel and is suspected to have together with a Commerce Ministry official sold information of over a thousand Thai citizens to a criminal call centre gang has been suspended while an investigation takes place, Matichon newspaper said today (Oct. 29). Pol. Lt. Gen. Thanayut. Wutthijarathamrong,
Read moreThais among over 30,000 Credit Suisse bank clients revealed in huge leak
By AP via VOA News, Matichon, The Guardian A GERMAN newspaper and other media on Sunday said a leak of data from Credit Suisse, Switzerland’s second-biggest bank, reveals details of the accounts of more than 30,000 clients — some of them unsavoury — and points to possible failures of due diligence in checks on
Read moreThailand now has more Covid cases per million people than India
THE latest statistics from Our World Data scientific online publication shows that Thailand’s daily Covid infections per million people has now surpassed India after the latter succeeded in sharply reducing the infection rate, Sanook.com said this morning (June 25). Thailand’s ongoing coronavirus wave that started in April continues to intensify with there being thousands
Read moreA massive database of 8 billion Thai internet records leaks
By Zack Whittaker, Techcrunch.com THAILAND’S largest cell network AIS has pulled a database offline that was spilling billions of real-time internet records on millions of Thai internet users. Security researcher Justin Paine said in a blog post that he found the database, containing DNS queries and Netflow data, on the internet without a password. With
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