A group of Indonesians, who call themselves BlackSinchan, has hacked the systems of Australian law enforcement Web sites, reports say. The infiltration comes in dissent over claims that several Australian intelligence services were spying on the Indonesian president, his wife, and other close representatives.

The hackers were able to infiltrate the databases of the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), Crime Stoppers, and the National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund (NDLERF). As reported by Sunshine Coast Daily, the hackers first infiltrated the systems of Crime Stoppers Web site. Incidentally, the Web sites of NDLERF and AIC are both hosted on the same server as Crime Stoppers'.

All the information obtained from the Web sites mentioned such as names, email addresses, and passwords were revealed. It has been reported that the data obtained belongs to the employees of police authorities based in Tasmania, South Australian, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Northern Territory.

"Greetings World, we are BlackSinchan," wrote the BlackSinchan on the leaked information. "We here beside Indonesian Cyber Group, we will help you, and today, we got some interesting user from many Gov of Australia, with hashed password," the Indonesian hackers wrote. "This is a warning for Australian government," BlackSinchan wrote.

This is the payback for spying on Indonesia," the hackers added.

Since the breach of systems, NDLERF has down its Web site down. AIC, on the other hand, has stated that they are aware of the breach, but has not given further statements.

Meanwhile, some members of the Indonesian House of Representatives have already flown to Russia to meet the person responsible for the spying report, who is reportedly living in an undisclosed location in Moscow.

The hacking incident could really be a threat to our national security. We hope that those individuals whose accounts were compromised have already been told to change their information including passwords.