Sarajevo - A group of teenagers from the northern Bosnian city of Tuzla may soon appear before some of courts in Bosnia-Herzegovina to face charges for hacking some web sites, Banja Luka daily Nezavisne novine reported Tuesday. The unnamed hackers from Tuzla, according to report, were discovered in March this year after they blocked several internet portals in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and later in April one porn web site in Croatia.
Blocking web sites, the young hackers at the same time sent blackmail messages to the owners of the sites, requesting certain money amounts to be sent to them via Western Union, to unblock the site.
In most of the cases their requests were not fulfilled, so they blocked some internet portals by sending too many opening requests, preventing others to access services.
Such operation has been known as distributed denial-of-service attack or DdoS attack.
The owner of the Croatian porn internet site, according to report, was requested to pay 1,000 euro (1,552 US dollar) for his site to be unblocked.
The hacker, as report said, made a mistake and left his name for the bank payment, so the blackmailed owner informed the local police and Interpol about the case.
Besides blackmailing web-page owners hackers from Tuzla were also broking into electronic bank accounts of people throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina, using that money to pay some computer devices or credits for different on-line games.
The total damage that hackers made, according to report, is still unknown.
The Spokesman for the Tuzla Cantonal Police Izudin Saric said that the Interior Ministry of Bosnia's Muslim-Croat Federation has been investigating the case and that the State Information and Protection Agency (SIPA) have made a report to the Office of Bosnia-Herzegovina's State Prosecutor.
