Jakarta. A guy who works at the client service unit of state-owned telecommunication business Telkomsel was arrested for presumably taking personal information of social media feeling Denny Siregar, police stated on Friday.
The suspect is identified by initials F.P.H., 27, who works at Telkomsel’s Grapari office in Surabaya, East Java.
” He has access to personal information of Telkomsel consumers,” Chief Comr. Reinhard Hutagaol, a senior private investigator at the National Authorities’s cyber criminal offense system, informed reporters in Jakarta.
He stated the suspect is an outsourced worker at Grapari with limited access to the company’s information server.
Cops charged him under the Electronic Info and Transaction (ITE) Law and he could confront 10 years in prison if convicted.
The suspect took an image of Denny’s personal information and released it on Twitter account @opposite6890, the officer stated.
” He merely doesn’t like Denny,” Reinhard stated.
Denny welcomed the arrest and applauded the authorities for their quick action.
” I’m happy to hear that the authorities have actually lastly jailed the culprit inside Telkomsel who published my information to the Twitter account. I thank police for their fast response. It comes to my relief due to the fact that now we know that there is an insider in the business who jeopardized customers’ information,” Denny said.
Telkomsel, the nation’s greatest cellular phone operator and amongst the world’s top 8 with more than 100 million consumers, apologized to Denny for the incident.
” We apologize to Mr. Denny Siregar for the trouble resulting from this event.
Andi stated the business right away ran an internal investigation upon discovering that Denny’s personal data had actually been compromised.
” We identified prohibited access from among our Grapari outlets,” Andi said, adding that the business had actually without delay alerted the police.
Denny, a die-hard advocate of President Joko Widodo, has mostly posted viewpoints on politics, consisting of numerous remarks extremely important of hardline Muslim groups.
Most just recently, he published a questionable post declaring that Islamic boarding school trainees participating in 2015’s Jakarta rally can potentially become terrorists, accompanied by a picture of young Muslim students.
An Islamic group in West Java, the Tasikmalaya Mujahedeen Forum, lodged a police problem in demonstration to Denny’s post. Part of their problem discusses that Denny had actually utilized their picture without approval.
