A former DBS contract worker was jailed on Friday ( Nov 22 ) for allegedly unauthorized access to the bank’s customer information.
On five events, Huang Pin Wen, 27, made an illegal lender or bookmakers request to do so. Other times, he did so to” show off” to others that he could get the information, the prosecutor said.
Huang faced 122 fees. He pleaded innocent to 13 crimes, with the remaining taken into consideration for punishment.
Huang’s employment opportunity covered the POSB Everyday credit cards. His responsibilities included checking if customers ‘ spending allowed them to receive subsidies and verifying when DBS buyers purchased the card.
To do this, he was issued a computer and granted entry to DBS ‘ customer relationship management structure, which held user data.
He was educated on the Personal Data Protection Act and the confidentiality of bank customer information, and he was aware of the limitations on accessing or disclosing consumer data for non-work-related purposes.
A buyer who provided screenshots of a conversation with an improper moneylender, Kenneth Tan, was the subject of a court hearing in February 2021.
In the talk dated Dec 7, 2020, Tan claimed it had cost S$ 450 to give a DBS personnel to perform a search on the consumer, who owed Tan income. Huang had allegedly accessed the company’s data that day, according to DBS.
DBS suspended Huang and started examinations, which revealed that Huang had accessed the information of 78 banks customers without power from Apr 7, 2020, to Feb 15, 2021.
When DBS questioned Huang about this, he denied any wrongdoing. In March of that year, the banks reported him to the authorities and fired him from his position.
According to Deputy Public Prosecutor Eunice Chew, Huang began illegally accessing client information on his computer when he began working from home at the” loop breaker” period of the COVID-19 pandemic.
He accessed his son’s friend’s data out of curiosity, and after boasting to his son’s companion that he could.
In order to perform a trick on a friend’s sister and mother, he even accessed their information.
Similar incidents, according to the prosecutor, were “less malignant” than the ones where Huang retrieved information from Tan and a bookmaker who had been a member of their illegal football team.
Through this common companion, Huang and Tan first connected with one another in the months of August and September of this year. At a meeting, Tan complained that he was unable to retrieve money from some consumers.
Huang informed Tan that he was employed by DBS and may assist in the investigation of owed income donors.
Tan contacted Huang via common friend on October 16, 2020, asking for assistance in obtaining a debtor’s tackle and bank account information.
Huang emailed their mutual friend who forwarded the photos to Tan after looking up their client profile on his cellphone.
Tan then gave the woman’s address to debt lovers, who went to the house to demand payment.
Within a month, Tan passed Huang S$ 100 to thank him for the details. For this, Huang was given a S$ 100 charges that he paid after his conviction on Friday.
Huang remained with Tan for three more times in this capacity. Additionally, he assisted their mutual friend, the unlawful bookmakers, in obtaining a bank customer’s account details.
With this knowledge, the bookmakers knew that the buyer had money in his bank accounts, and he asked people to demand payment.
Ms Chew, the counsel, sought a prison term of eight weeks and seven months to 10 weeks and two days for Huang.
She said Huang had abused his status as a DBS staff and was “extremely frequent” in his crimes, which were very difficult to detect.
Mumtaj Banu, the defense attorney, requested the prosecution’s most extreme statement possible.
She said Huang committed the crimes “out of folly” and to please people, and did not use the customer information for individual gain.
Additionally, Ms. Banu claimed that Huang only benefited from the$ 100 that would be exchanged for money.
In imprisonment, District Judge Ow Yong Tuck Leong said that Huang’s steps had damaged Singapore’s status as an internationally respected financial center.
Tan also admitted guilt in 2023 and was imprisoned for three months for gratifying Huang with$ 100.