Men of the General Department of Criminal Investigation in Kuwait, represented in the Department of Cybercrime, managed to arrest a Kuwaiti hacker working in one of the companies specialized in programming systems. He tried, over the course of 48 hours, to penetrate the Ministry of Commerce's system for reservation of shopping dates from cooperative societies and supply branches for more than 20 thousand Once.
According to the Kuwaiti "Al-Qabas", the accused who was caught in an apartment in Al-Shaab Al-Bahari area, Saturday, admitted that his aim was to try to obtain as much information as possible on the auditors of the associations for other purposes he intended, and he was referred to the Public Prosecution.
A security source said that the system of the Ministry of Commerce regarding the reservation reservation system for cooperative societies and catering branches over the past two days has exposed more than 20 thousand attempts to penetrate.
The source added: “Coordination between the Ministry of Trade and electronic crimes was coordinated to follow up on the hacker and monitor it. Indeed, monitoring was done, and issuing permissions from the Public Prosecution for some suspicious phones, as well as some ground numbers, until the investigations of the officers reached to know the identity of the hacker, his residence and workplace, and on that basis a permit was issued. From the Public Prosecution office, and was monitored while he was leaving the house for the permitted walking period, and he was caught with two mobile devices.
The source continued: «The accused was referred to the investigation office, and by facing the incident he committed, he admitted and admitted that he had committed the incident and instructed the cybercrime officers on the headquarters of his devices in his house, which he used to penetrate.
The defendant also stated that his aim was to try to obtain as much information as possible on the association's auditors for other purposes, including the creation of a large database for itself for citizens and residents on their homes and phones, and other things intended.