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SINGAPORE – A former DBS Bank estate planning manager was jailed for 12 weeks on Tuesday (September 29) for accessing the personal information of 37 clients and selling the information to a data broker for profit.
The man, Terry Tang Jia Lin, 29, made around $ 900 from the sale to a co-defendant, Goh Kok Liang, between April and July last year.
Goh, also 29, sold customers’ personal data to buyers that included unlicensed lenders.
Tang faced one charge under the Computer Misuse Act, and another similar charge was taken into consideration for his sentencing.
According to court documents, the couple met through a mutual friend in 2016.
In April 2019, they met at a nightclub at Orchard Hotel and Goh asked Tang if he could help him leak personal information of various people.
Tang said that if Goh provided him with a person’s identifying details, such as their NRIC number, mobile phone number, email address or bank account number, he could provide Goh with the person’s address, details of the member of the family, employment details and account balance. .
So, as part of his job, Tang was allowed to access the personal information of DBS customers on the bank’s secure computer system. However, he was authorized to use the system only to assess the risk level of his clients in order to recommend financial products to them.
Goh offered Tang $ 100 for every four screening requests he made.
The court heard that Tang did not verify or investigate the nature of Goh’s business. Nor did he find out what Goh intended to do with the personal information.
Despite knowing that he was not authorized to access the computer system for this purpose, Tang then logged into DBS’s secure computer system and entered the identifying details, generating the individual’s personal information.
He then provided Goh with the personal information via WhatsApp under the name “Ted Fat” before being arrested on August 5.
Court documents did not reveal how Goh was treated.
Deputy Prosecutor Andre Chong called for Tang to be sentenced to 15 weeks in prison and noted that “he took advantage of his position and violated the trust placed in him by virtue of his capacity as a bank official.
Although defense attorney Kalidass Murugaiyan urged the court to consider a community sentence for Tang, Deputy Chief Justice Jennifer Marie said this was “not appropriate.”
She called Tang’s actions a “breach of trust,” adding that his use of a nickname demonstrated premeditation to commit the crimes.
In passing sentence, he said: “(Tang) is not someone who has been so naive as to have been misled or misled.”
The Straits Times has contacted DBS for comment.
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