Nov. 6 – Cyber police announced the results of their operation, expanding the results of arrests of suspects who sold personal data of more than 2 million Thai people, arresting 3 additional suspects.
Pol. Lt. Gen. Thana Chuwong, Assistant Commissioner of the Royal Thai Police Acting Deputy Commissioner of the Royal Thai Police and Pol. Lt. Gen. Worawat Watthanakornbancha Police Commissioner investigates technological crimes Statement of performance results The Technology Crime Investigation Division 5 or SOT 5 has expanded its results from the arrest of a suspect who sold the personal data of more than 2 million Thai people who was arrested in July 2023 in Phuket Province. and the accused middleman who bought data from more than 15 million names of famous brand dietary supplement customers for the dark web group. who was arrested in August
They have arrested three more important suspects involved. The first is Mr. Pasin, age 41, a broker for an insurance company. that takes insurance customer information and sells it to fraudsters was arrested in Pathum Thani Province Which is in the process of checking how many names have been sold. and will continue to expand the results to buyers
The second case was the arrest of Mr. Natthaphong, 28 years old, in Kalasin Province. I am a programmer who wrote the API Bypass face scan program to use to unlock face scans. in the bank application to allow transfers of more than 50,000 baht according to the bank’s regulations Give the horse account group And online gambling groups use it to transfer large sums of money quickly without having to scan their faces. But at this time, the program is only available for certain Android phones.
The third person arrested in Udon Thani province is Mr. Yodchai, 24 years old, an admin of a Facebook group who used personal information obtained from online gambling website databases to sell more than 15 million names, which is basic information such as names and telephone numbers. Moreover, in the aforementioned Facebook group, there is also trading and exchanging information. and trade information between dark web groups to make a profit.
Initially, officials charged him with an offense under the Computer Act. on the basis of offenses concerning Disclosing personal information to others, illegally accessing data that has specific protection measures, causing damage or changing computer data illegally and arrange for advertising or inviting others to gamble without permission. The officials will then investigate and expand the results to additional people involved.
In addition, officials were able to arrest three networks of online gambling websites, namely meslot789, winnerslot555 and major 168, arresting a total of 27 suspects. All three websites have a total of more than 55,000 followers and have an annual turnover of more than 1,300 million baht. Officials were able to seize them. Assets were over 18 million baht. In addition, the investigation found that all 3 networks also have more than 30 gambling websites in the network, which are in the process of further investigation and expansion.
Source: Thai News Agency