Three Singaporeans have been detained for making unauthorised attempts to change residential addresses through an online service offered by the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority ( ICA ) in Singapore.
Ng Wei Chang, Yuen Mun Fei and Koh Hong Yan , appeared in a district court on Friday morning  , ( Jan 17 ).
Under the Computer Misuse Act, each is charged with one crime.
Ng, 30, is accused of releasing entry codes without permission for a legal purpose.
He is accused of conspiring to obtain a six-digit Lock to illegally and knowingly change the registered names of unknown individuals.
He reportedly did this on or around October 1, 2024.
Yuen, 38, was charged with transmitting Koh’s person recognition, login and one-time password for the federal electric identity company in November 2024.
These qualifications allegedly were used to violate Section 3 ( 1 ) of the Computer Misuse Act, which prohibits illegal access to computer files.
Koh, 26, was charged with disclosing his SingPass person recognition, password and one-time login to Yuen for an unconstitutional intent on Dec 16, 2024.
For these crimes, the sentence for a first-time criminal is a prison term of up to three years, a fine of up to S$ 10, 000 ( US$ 7, 300), or both.
The prosecutor requested that the trio been remanded for a week so that the police could do a raid and investigation, and that the crimes belonged to a syndicated nature.
All three have been placed on remand and have been given authority to go on trial. They will all go back to court on January 24.