The two Malaysian businessmen conspired to buy the personal data of more than 9,000 people from a Chinese national who claimed to have the data of over 1 million Thais.
New: You can now listen to articles.SINGAPORE: Two Malaysian businessmen admitted on Tuesday to a conspiracy to buy the personal data of more than 9,000 people from a Chinese national, who claimed he had the personal information of over a million Thai nationals., run by Chinese criminals who operated out of a rented bungalow in Mount Sinai, with alleged victims from countries like India and Korea.
As Seow knew that his friend Kong had a client dealing in online gambling operations, he introduced Kong and Sun to each other.They also did not know how Sun obtained his databases but believed they could have been stolen. Sun later allegedly told investigators that he had obtained the data through hacking other gambling websites.
The file was a sample extracted from a larger database and was part of negotiations for the sale of the full database.After receiving the file, Kong sent it to an associate known as"Nida" and instructed her to cold-call the numbers inside. During the negotiation process between Aug 21 and Sep 7, Kong and Seow were concurrently and privately discussing whether the data was worth Sun's asking price.
Sun was arrested at a condominium along Bidadari Park Drive. He had a laptop containing computer programmes that could be used in cyber attacks. The prosecutors said the sample was simply"a mere subset of the full set of data that the accused persons purchased, being over a million persons".The offences were also"clearly committed in the context of a wider online gambling syndicate", with the data intended for us for an online gambling operation, said the prosecution.
Kong's lawyers, Mr Pratap Kishan and Ms Jasmine Yan from Kishan Law Chambers, similarly sought a fine for their client, saying he is"not a hardened criminal" but that this was a"one-off incident".
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