SINGAPORE- A captain with the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) bought multiple credit card details that belonged to others from someone he met on the Dark Web.
The Dark Web contains websites that are not indexed by search engines such as Google.
It is accessible only by special software where users and website operators can remain anonymous as well as untraceable.
After that, Yang Jiafeng, who was from the SAF Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance Training Centre, went online and unlawfully used the information to buy 88 e-vouchers worth more than $10,000 in total.
The Straits Times understands that he has since been suspended from the SAF.
Yang, 32, was sentenced on Monday (Feb 17) to 20 weeks’ jail after he pleaded guilty to three counts of causing a computer to access without authority the data in another computer.
These offences fall under the Computer Misuse and Cybersecurity Act.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Cheng Yuxi said the SAF regular officer got to know the netizen known only as “Mr Tree” through an online forum on the Dark Web.
The pair started communicating with each other via an e-mail service provider called Sharklaser.com, which automatically deletes e-mails after a few hours.
Yang then bought from Mr Tree multiple credit card details belonging to others, and some of them involved Maybank.
He paid Mr Tree with Bitcoins but court documents did not reveal the amount.
Yang later created three accounts on an online application called Fave, which isa mobile payment and deals platform.
The court heard that one of its main features called “Fave deals” offers discounts in areas such as food and beverage, travel as well as beauty and wellness.
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