Extent of Cyber

Crimes around the

World

March 6, 2016

Extent of Cyber Crimes around the World

Course Title: Accounting Information Systems
Course Code: AIS 3310

Submitted To:
Mahpara Nodee
Lecturer (SOBE); Assistant Proctor (UIU)

Submitted By:
Fyaz Mahbub Rohan
ID: 114 121 025
Section: A

Contents
Definition of Cyber Crime: ................................................................................................................ 2
Classification of cyber crime:............................................................................................................ 2
Cyber Crimes Committed in Bangladesh: ......................................................................................... 3
Cyber Crimes Committed in India: ................................................................................................... 4

Cyber Crimes Committed in United Sate of America: ...................................................................... 5

Cyber Crimes Committed in Canada: ............................................................................................... 7

Cyber Crimes Committed in UK: ....................................................................................................... 8

Cyber Crimes Committed in Pakistan: .............................................................................................. 9

REFERENCES ................................................................................................................................... 10

Definition of Cyber Crime:

cyber crime means any criminal or other offence that is

facilitated by or involves the use of electronic
communications or information systems, including any
device or the Internet or any one or more of them.
The term Cybercrime, although widely used in the same context over the past decade, does not
have a precise or universal definition. Due to the varying scenarios and environments, it varies
between jurisdictions and differs largely based on the perceptions of those involved.

Classification of cyber crime:

Cyber crime can evolve criminal activities that are traditional in nature, such as, theft,
fraud, forgery, defamation and mischief, all of which are subject to the penal laws of the
country. The abuse of computer has also given birth to a gamut of new age crimes that are
addressed by the special laws enacted to penalize this crime.
For example, in Bangladesh Tatha o Jogajog Projukti Ain, 2006 defines certain offences
which are not covered by penal code.
All such crimes can be classified as follows.
It can be classified in to 4 major categories as
I.

Cyber crime against Individual

II.

Cyber crime Against Property

III.

Cyber crime Against Organization

IV.

Cyber crime Against Society

Cyber Crimes Committed in Bangladesh:

Cyber Crime 1
Year:

2004

Crime Committed:

E-mail threatening to the Prime Minister Shekh Hasina

Way

they

were By sending e-mail from a cyber cafe wired by the broadband internet

done:

service.

Committed By:

Shaibal Saha Partha

Cyber Crime 2
Year:

2007

Crime Committed:

Bangladesh computer society website hacked by libyan hacker

Hacked by:

Taroq-Libyan hacker

Website Hacked:

www.bcsbd.org.bd

Cyber Crime 3
Year:

2008

Crime Committed:

The website of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has been hacked

Hacked by:

Shahee Mirza, twenty one year student of Saic Institute of

Management and Technology in Mirpur

Website Hacked:

www.rab.gov.bd

Cyber Crime 4
Year:

2012

Crime Committed:

The website of Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd has been hacked

Hacked by:

TeamGreyHat(TGH)

Website Hacked:

www.islamibankbd.com

Losses Incurred:

gained sensitive data of banks customer information

Cyber Crime 5
Year:

2015

Crime Committed:

Bangladesh Coast Guard website hacked

Hacked by:

Pak Cyber Pyrates

Website Hacked:

http://www.coastguard.gov.bd

Cyber Crimes Committed in India:

Cyber Crime 1
Year:

2015

Crime Committed:

Indian stock market hacked

Hacked by:

Bangladesh Cyber Army

Website Hacked:

http://www.nseindia.com/

Losses Incurred:

Get real-time last sale and extended hours stock prices, company
news, charts, and company-specific research

Cyber Crime 2
Year:

2012

Crime Committed:

BSNL.co.in taken down by Bangladesh Black Hat Hackers(BBHH)

Hacked by:

Bangladesh Black Hat Hackers(BBHH)

Website Hacked:

www.BSNL.co.in

Losses Incurred:

leaked customers details in public

Cyber Crime 3
Year:

2007

Crime Committed:

Official website of Maharashtra government hacked

Hacked by:

Hackers Cool Al-Jazeera based in Saudi Arabia

Website Hacked:

http://www.maharashtragovernment.in

Losses Incurred:

The state government website contains detailed information about

government departments, circulars, reports, and several other topics.
Hackers may have destroyed all of the websites contents

Cyber Crime 4
Year:

2007

Crime Committed:

Three people held guilty in on line credit card scam

Way they were

Shaikh was working in the credit card department; due to this he had

done:

access to credit card details of some customers. He gave that

information to Kale. Kale in return passed this information to his
friend Lukkad. Using the information obtained from Kale Lukkad
booked tickets. He used to sell these tickets to customers and get
money for the same. He had given few tickets to various other
institutions.

Committed By:

Dharmendra Bhika Kale and Ahmead Sikandar Shaikh

Cyber Crimes Committed in United Sate of America:

Cyber Crime 1
Year:

November 24, 2014

Crime Committed:

Sony Pictures Entertainment hack

Hacked by:

OurMine, the attack was sponsored by North Korea.

Way they were

The attack was conducted using malware. US-CERT said that the

done:

attackers used a Server Message Block (SMB) Worm Tool to conduct

attacks against a major entertainment company. Components of the
attack included a listening implant, backdoor, proxy tool, destructive
hard drive tool, and destructive target cleaning tool. The components
clearly suggest intent to gain repeated entry, extract information, and
be destructive, as well as remove evidence of the attack. The cleaning
tool used on Sony's computer infrastructure, Wiper, is a malware
program designed to erase data from the servers.

Losses Incurred:

Leaked a release of confidential data from the film studio Sony

Pictures Entertainment. The data included personal information about
Sony Pictures employees and their families, e-mails between
employees, information about executive salaries at the company,
copies of then-unreleased Sony films, and other information.
According to a notice letter dated December 8, 2014, from SPE to its
employees, SPE learned on December 1, 2014, that personally
identifiable information about employees and their dependents may
have been obtained by unauthorized individuals as a result of a

"brazen cyber-attack", including names, address, social security

numbers and financial information. On December 7, 2014, C-SPAN
reported that the hackers stole 47,000 unique Social Security numbers
from the SPE computer network

Cyber Crime 2
Year:

2014

Crime Committed:

Hackers Breach Security of HealthCare.gov

Way they were

Hackers downloaded malicious software onto a test server of

done:

HealthCare.gov as part of a broader denial-of-service attack, intended

to cripple other websites. In such an attack, hackers infect hundreds or
thousands of computers, called botnets, with malware and then
command those computers to send traffic to a particular website in an
effort to push it offline.

Losses Incurred:

Home Depot confirmed in September that they had been infiltrated by

hackers since April, admitting that 56 million accounts were put at
risk. The company expected to pay $62 million to cover the costs of
the attack, including legal fees and overtime for staff, and causing an
estimated $90 million in costs for banks to replace 7.4 million debt
and credit cards.

Cyber Crime 3
Year:

2014

Crime Committed:

53 Million Email Addresses Stolen in Home Depot Hack

Way they were

Home Depot's investigation found the hackers escaped detection by

done:

using custom-made malware that had never been seen before. Such
malware -- which hackers call "zero days" because that's how long it's
been known -- can't be spotted by traditional anti-virus software.

Losses Incurred:

Home Depot confirmed in September that they had been infiltrated by

hackers since April, admitting that 56 million accounts were put at
risk. The company expected to pay $62 million to cover the costs of
the attack, including legal fees and overtime for staff, and causing an

estimated $90 million in costs for banks to replace 7.4 million debt
and credit cards.

Cyber Crime 4
Year:

2014

Crime Committed:

JPMorgan Chase Hacking

Losses Incurred:

Losses of financial information in its computer systems that goes

beyond customers credit card details and potentially includes more
sensitive data. One million accounts were affected. Operating
overseas, the hackers gained access to the names, addresses, phone
numbers and emails of JPMorgan account holders. Names, email and
postal addresses, and phone numbers of account holders were
obtained by hackers, raising concerns of potential phishing attacks.

Cyber Crimes Committed in Canada:

Cyber Crime 1
Year:

2015

Crime Committed:

Cyber attack on CSIS website

Website Hacked:

https://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/index-en.php

Hacked by:

CTVs Mercedes Stephenson that a rogue hacker had launched

Losses Incurred:

No information has been breached

Cyber Crime 2
Year:

2011

Crime Committed:

Cyber attack on Canadian Government Website

Hacked by:

By foreign hackers using IP addresses from China

Losses Incurred:

The hackers managed to infiltrate three departments within the

government and transmit classified information back to them. The
attacks resulted in the government cutting off internet access in the
departments affected and various responses from both the Canadian
government and the Chinese government.

Cyber Crime 3
Year:

2015

Crime Committed:

Cyber attack on Canadian Government Servers

Hacked by:

The government blamed China for the attack

Control

Measures A new $32.5-million system was built to better withstand further

Taken:

attacks.

Cyber Crimes Committed in UK:

Cyber Crime 1
Year:

2016

Crime Committed:

HSBC Online Banking Hit by Cyber Attack

Way of Attack:

A denial of service attack is where a website is swamped with traffic in an

attempt to bring it down.

Losses Incurred:

The cyber attack came less than a month after HSBC suffered a systems
failure, which stopped customers from using its site and mobile app for
nearly two days. HSBC suffered another high-profile systems failure last
August, which delayed 275,000 customer payments just before the
weekend.

Cyber Crime 2
Year:

2015

Crime Committed:

Hackers steal 650 million in world's biggest bank raid

Way of Attack:

The hackers managed to infiltrate the banks internal computer systems

using malware, which lurked in the networks for months, gathering
information and feeding it back to the gang. The illegal software was so
sophisticated that it allowed the criminals to view video feeds from within
supposedly secure offices as they gathered the data they needed to steal.

Losses Incurred:

The scale of the losses by UK based financial institutions has not yet
been disclosed, but is thought to run into tens of millions of pounds.

Cyber Crimes Committed in Pakistan:

Cyber Crime 1
Year:

2013

Crime Committed:

Cyber Attack on Pakistan's Electoral Commission Website

Hacked By:

An Indian hacker

Way of Attack:

The hacker defaced the home page and has possibly compromised its
availability to visitors

Control

Measures Electoral Commission decided to shift its website to another server. All

Taken:

election-related data was secure despite the attack.

Cyber Crime 2
Year:

2016

Crime Committed:

Federal health ministry website hacked

Hacked By:

An Indian hacker

Cyber Crime 3
Year:

2015

Crime Committed:

Hacked around ten Pakistani websites, including a high profile Pakistan

government website.

Hacked By:

A group of Indian hackers, calling themselves the Indian Black Hats have
launched a symbolic cyber attack against Pakistan.

Websites Hacked:

The websites that the Indian Black Hats hacked till evening on Thursday
were www.csd.gov.pk and www.mona.gov.pk, while a variety of nongovernment domains, including www.metroshoes.com.pk, and as well were
hacked by the Black Hats.

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