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Thursday, August 27, 2009
PHILPOTT Martin, the 26-year-old computer specialist and computer programmer who was arrested on the weekend following a two-year cyber-crime investigation, will today appear before the Half-Way-Tree Resident's Magistrate Court.
BAILEY. head of the Organised Crime Investigation Division
Martin, who resides in Kingston 8, was held at his home on Saturday by detectives from the Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID), headed by Superintendent Fitz Bailey.
Martin is facing three counts of simple larceny and one count of conspiracy to defraud.
In the meantime, the police said another man has remained in custody for further questioning and that three additional arrests were made yesterday in Kingston.
"For the past two years the Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID) has been looking into complaints from businesses and individuals, whose computer networks were compromised through network intrusion, data interception, data and identity theft," the police said in a statement yesterday.
Said the police: "The allegations also involve the transfer of funds electronically from the accounts of both local and overseas institutions totalling million of dollars to the Cayman Islands and USA; among the institutions that were compromised is one of our own major telecommunication providers."
The police said J$600,000, believed to be the proceeds of recent crimes, was seized during the operation on Saturday.
Police said they also seized a number of items: Among them were:
. two all-in-one printers;
. two external hard drives;
. six GPRS modems;
. one physical server, comprising of at least six to seven virtual servers;
. one desktop computer;
. five laptop computers;
. seven mobile phones and a quantity of SIM cards.
Financial records, documents and other items of furniture were seized, said
the police.
"At the time of the raid, five computers were being used on a network, attempting to hack into one of our major telecommunications' networks using PGP encryption software, which is used to hide data," said yesterday's statement from
the police.
PHILPOTT Martin, the 26-year-old computer specialist and computer programmer who was arrested on the weekend following a two-year cyber-crime investigation, will today appear before the Half-Way-Tree Resident's Magistrate Court.
BAILEY. head of the Organised Crime Investigation DivisionMartin, who resides in Kingston 8, was held at his home on Saturday by detectives from the Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID), headed by Superintendent Fitz Bailey.
Martin is facing three counts of simple larceny and one count of conspiracy to defraud.
In the meantime, the police said another man has remained in custody for further questioning and that three additional arrests were made yesterday in Kingston.
"For the past two years the Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID) has been looking into complaints from businesses and individuals, whose computer networks were compromised through network intrusion, data interception, data and identity theft," the police said in a statement yesterday.
Said the police: "The allegations also involve the transfer of funds electronically from the accounts of both local and overseas institutions totalling million of dollars to the Cayman Islands and USA; among the institutions that were compromised is one of our own major telecommunication providers."
The police said J$600,000, believed to be the proceeds of recent crimes, was seized during the operation on Saturday.
Police said they also seized a number of items: Among them were:
. two all-in-one printers;
. two external hard drives;
. six GPRS modems;
. one physical server, comprising of at least six to seven virtual servers;
. one desktop computer;
. five laptop computers;
. seven mobile phones and a quantity of SIM cards.
Financial records, documents and other items of furniture were seized, said
the police.
"At the time of the raid, five computers were being used on a network, attempting to hack into one of our major telecommunications' networks using PGP encryption software, which is used to hide data," said yesterday's statement from
the police.
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