Seven individuals have been arrested for exploiting ICA's e-service to illegally change others' registered home addresses. The service was temporarily suspended after 87 unauthorized attempts were detected, with 69 successful. ICA has implemented additional security measures and resumed the public's ability to change their own addresses.
ICA said it has resumed the service that allows the public to change their own address and implemented additional security measures for it.Seven people have been arrested for allegedly using the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority’s e-service to illegally change other people’s registered home addresses.
In an update later on Jan 14, ICA said that as at Jan 13, it found a total of 87 unauthorised attempts, 69 of which were successful.The police said between Jan 11 and 13, more than 60 officers from the police’s Criminal Investigation Department and Police Intelligence Department mounted an islandwide operation to arrest the suspects.One is being investigated for the offence of unlawful disclosure of passwords or access codes in relation to Singpass under the same Act.
ICA said in its Jan 14 update that it had resumed the service that allows the public to change their own address and implemented additional security measures.The modules that allow individuals to change the addresses for others remain unavailable. For all 87 cases, ICA said it is facilitating a replacement of their identity card, and restoring their registered address in its database to their legitimate one.ICA said it is working together with the Government Technology Agency to assist the 17 users whose Singpass accounts were compromised.
It added: “To avoid being implicated in criminal activities, we should always reject seemingly easy and attractive money-making opportunities that promise fast payouts in exchange for the use of our Singpass account, bank accounts or other personal accounts.”
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