Haiwaiwang, August 22. A female employee of the Hong Kong Immigration Department is suspected of obtaining personal information through the Immigration Department system and performing hundreds of "criminal" acts, including information on 200 police officers. She is accused of a public official. The case of misconduct and conspiracy to use a computer with criminal or dishonest intent was brought before Hong Kong Eastern Magistracy on the morning of August 22. The court approved the adjournment of the case until October 19, pending further investigation by the police. The defense application for bail was rejected and the defendant must continue to be remanded in custody.
According to Dagongwenhui.com, the charge alleges that the defendant Kong Yingchen, as a public official, that is, a clerical assistant of the Immigration Department, was performing public office in Hong Kong from December 2019 to August this year without reasonable excuses or reasons. In the process, deliberately committed misconduct, that is, actively or in response to a request made by another person with unknown identity in the private name, unauthorized access to the computer of the Immigration Department of the SAR Government, searching for and retrieving specific individuals in the process Data, the distribution of the above personal data is not authorized.
According to the report, the defense applied for bail on behalf of the defendant, but the prosecution feared that the defendant would continue to control the Telegram account to release data, and would have the opportunity to destroy evidence or abscond, and opposed the defendant’s bail. In the end, the magistrate rejected the defense's application for bail, and the case was postponed until October 19, pending the forensic examination of the defendant's mobile phone and computer by the police and further investigation.
Prior to this, the Hong Kong Police Cyber Security and Technology Crime Investigation Division, Superintendent Tan Weixin, stated on the 21st that the police had discovered that someone was suspected of illegally leaking the personal information of a number of individuals online, including police officers and civil servants, since 2019. Some personal information is suspected to be obtained through illegal channels. After investigation, the police arrested a 25-year-old woman in Wan Chai on the morning of the 20th. She is a clerical assistant at the Immigration Department and has been employed for about 2 years. Preliminary investigations revealed that she was suspected of providing personal information to the person in charge of the "Qidi" channel of multiple social platforms in the past year. It is believed that the information was obtained illegally through the immigration system. Tan Weixin said that after discussing with the Immigration Department and with the assistance of the other party, the police successfully took the arrest.
The Hong Kong police said that since June 2019, a total of more than 3,800 people have been "started". The persons involved include police officers, civil servants, judges, legislators, district councillors, etc., who have been harassed by telephone, mischievous, and imposted. Apply for a loan or be registered for organ donation, etc. The Hong Kong police strongly condemned the related “removal” behavior. The police reiterated that cyberspace is not an unreliable virtual world. (Overseas Net Yang Jia)