Seven individuals, including a 19-year-old, have been arrested in Singapore for allegedly exploiting the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority's (ICA) e-service to illegally change others' registered home addresses.
Seven individuals, including a 19-year-old, have been apprehended in Singapore for allegedly exploiting the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority's (ICA) e-service to illicitly alter the registered home addresses of others. The Singapore Police Force disclosed in a statement on January 14th that six men and one woman, spanning ages between 19 and 32, are implicated in at least 30 instances of unauthorized address modifications.
\This incident prompted ICA to temporarily suspend the online service on January 11th after documenting 80 unauthorized attempts to change registered addresses, with a concerning 75% success rate. Subsequent updates revealed that the total number of unauthorized attempts reached 87 by January 13th, with 69 successful alterations. \A comprehensive island-wide operation involving over 60 officers from the Criminal Investigation Department and Police Intelligence Department was launched between January 11th and 13th, culminating in the arrests of the suspects. Six individuals face investigation under the Computer Misuse Act for the unlawful disclosure of access codes, while one suspect is being investigated for the unlawful disclosure of passwords or access codes related to Singpass, Singapore's national digital identity service. Further investigations by ICA are underway regarding alleged breaches of the National Registration Regulations. Those convicted of unauthorized disclosure of access codes may be imprisoned for up to three years, fined up to $10,000, or face both penalties for first-time offenses. The same punishments apply to those found guilty of unlawful disclosure of passwords or access codes related to a national digital identity service. \ICA has since resumed the service allowing individuals to change their own addresses, but modules enabling address changes on behalf of others remain unavailable. The authority is actively developing additional security measures to prevent abuse and ensure the safe alteration of addresses by family members or proxies. ICA is directly contacting all 87 affected individuals, informing them of the attempted changes to their registered addresses. House visits have been conducted for those unreachable via phone. For all 87 cases, ICA is facilitating the replacement of their identity cards and restoring their registered addresses to legitimate records in its database
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