7, including a 19-year-old, arrested for allegedly using ICA e-service to illegally change others' addresses
Seven people have been arrested for allegedly using the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority’s (ICA) e-service to illegally change other people’s registered home addresses.
In a statement on Jan 14, the police said the six men and a woman, aged between 19 and 32, are purportedly responsible for at least 30 of the cases of unauthorised attempts first announced by ICA on Jan 11.
ICA had said then that it suspended that online service temporarily after 80 unauthorised attempts to change the registered home addresses via the service were reported, with 75 per cent of them successful.
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.
Of these successful attempts, the culprits gained control of 17 Singpass accounts, said ICA.
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.
Six are being investigated for offences under the Computer Misuse Act, for unlawful disclosure of access codes.