Web Content Security NewsWeb Content Guarder Directory - Return to News Menu Chinese hacker held in Web data theft The Asahi Shimbun 07/07/2005 - Police arrested a 27-year-old student from China on suspicion of hacking into a Tokyo travel agency's Web site in March and stealing personal data on about 90,000 customers, investigators said Wednesday. Officials of the Metropolitan Police Department said they suspect that Yu Hua, a third-year student at a private university in Tokyo, gained illegal access to a total of 14 businesses' Web sites and stole 520,000 data entries. Yu apparently sold some of the data, but no abuse of the stolen information has so far been reported, the officials said. The student was quoted as saying he wanted "to earn money to study here." According to a police high-tech crime task force, Yu used his home computer to illegally access a Club Tourism International Inc. Web server 190,000 times from March 15-17 by using hacker software. Gaining access via servers in the United States and the Philippines, Yu copied files containing names, addresses, phone numbers and other data on 90,000 customers who had registered via the Internet. No credit information, such as bank account numbers, appears to have been stolen. Taking advantage of the Web site's security vulnerabilities, the student used a technique known as SQL injection to pass illegal commands and manipulate accessed sites' databases. Yu told the police he got the hacking software from a Chinese-language Web site. Tokyo police also suspect that Yu lifted 90,000 data entries from Kakaku.com, a price comparison site, in April and early May. 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