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DBS Bank executive sold customer data
January 13th, 2011 | Author: Your Correspondent
An executive with DBS Bank sold
customers’ confidential details to several buyers,
including an illegal moneylender for a total of $2,625.
Sazaly Selamat (left)
Yesterday, Sazaly Selamat pleaded guilty to 7 charges of curruption and 2 of computer misuse in a district court. District Judge F.G. Remedios will sentence him on 26th Jan.
The court heard that the 40 year-old was authorised to access the bank’s in-house customer database system to retrieve information such as customers’ identity card numbers, addresses and other contact details but he was not allowed to disclose this information to third parties.
Some time in 2003, he began to experience financial difficulties. His car was repossessed two years later, after he defaulted on two months of payment.
Sazaly got to know one of the repossessors, Mr Alex Lian Teck Huat, who found out he could access DBS’ customer database. Mr Lian is said to have then asked Sazaly if he wanted to make some money.
Sazaly agreed and Mr Lian offered him $50 for each customer whose details he retrieved. He also told others of Sazaly’s ’services’.
Eventually, the news reached an illegal football bookmaker known as Wei Keong, who operated in the Yishun area.
With Sazaly’s help, Wei Keong tracked down debtors who owed him money. Through another bookmaker, Wei Keong transferred three sums of between $50 and $100 to Sazaly’s account.
Assistant Public Prosecutor Puspha said Sazaly ‘had no qualms about selling this information to these individuals due to his financial problems’.
Pleading for leniency, Sazaly, a divorced father of two, asked for a ‘low fine’, saying he had got his life sorted out and a stable job.
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Anele
DBS needs to be farked for having so many foreigners and Indians FTs in it and removing so many Singaporeans workers .
January 13th, 2011 | Author: Your Correspondent
An executive with DBS Bank sold
customers’ confidential details to several buyers,
including an illegal moneylender for a total of $2,625.
Sazaly Selamat (left)
Yesterday, Sazaly Selamat pleaded guilty to 7 charges of curruption and 2 of computer misuse in a district court. District Judge F.G. Remedios will sentence him on 26th Jan.
The court heard that the 40 year-old was authorised to access the bank’s in-house customer database system to retrieve information such as customers’ identity card numbers, addresses and other contact details but he was not allowed to disclose this information to third parties.
Some time in 2003, he began to experience financial difficulties. His car was repossessed two years later, after he defaulted on two months of payment.
Sazaly got to know one of the repossessors, Mr Alex Lian Teck Huat, who found out he could access DBS’ customer database. Mr Lian is said to have then asked Sazaly if he wanted to make some money.
Sazaly agreed and Mr Lian offered him $50 for each customer whose details he retrieved. He also told others of Sazaly’s ’services’.
Eventually, the news reached an illegal football bookmaker known as Wei Keong, who operated in the Yishun area.
With Sazaly’s help, Wei Keong tracked down debtors who owed him money. Through another bookmaker, Wei Keong transferred three sums of between $50 and $100 to Sazaly’s account.
Assistant Public Prosecutor Puspha said Sazaly ‘had no qualms about selling this information to these individuals due to his financial problems’.
Pleading for leniency, Sazaly, a divorced father of two, asked for a ‘low fine’, saying he had got his life sorted out and a stable job.
.
Anele
DBS needs to be farked for having so many foreigners and Indians FTs in it and removing so many Singaporeans workers .
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