Case of teen hacking suspect sent to Tokyo prosecutors

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The Japan Times
June 11, 2003

Tokyo police on Tuesday turned over to prosecutors their case against 
a 15-year-old high school student suspected of hacking into some 140 
Web sites in 23 countries and regions and defacing them with slogans 
opposing the war in Iraq.

According to the cybercrime unit of the Metropolitan Police 
Department, the youth, who lives in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, 
hacked into the Web sites of private firms, government organs and 
educational institutions in Asia, the United States and Europe. The 
teen holds the dubious honor of having caused the most damage by a 
Japan-based hacker, they said.

According to investigators, the teen said he began studying hacking 
techniques when he was in the second year of junior high school 
because he admired computer hackers.

Police said he told them that he and a friend started trying to hack 
into computers around November because they wanted to write antiwar 
messages.

"I first started hacking into Web sites in the U.S. and Britain, but 
after a while, it didn't matter where the sites were," the youth was 
quoted as saying. "I was happy to see my techniques improving."

According to investigations, the student used a personal computer at 
his home to set up a so-called attack program to alter the contents of 
a Web site in Slovakia at around 2:40 p.m. March 28.

Using this program, he allegedly went through a server in Thailand to 
alter the contents of a Web site managed by a company employee in 
Tokyo's Setagaya Ward to make a message reading "stop the war" appear 
on the site.

The teen always signed his work with the name "Sunakuzira," police 
said.

He apparently downloaded the attack program from the Internet and used 
the server in Thailand to find foreign sites without being traced.

Police discovered the teen's hacking work while trolling the Net in 
search of cybercrimes and tracked him down through his transmission 
records.



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