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Ex-StarHub employee jailed for illegally obtaining details of customers who were later harassed by loan sharks

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SINGAPORE: When a friend from secondary school asked him to help retrieve StarHub customer details, a customer care consultant working for the telecommunications company dutifully obtained addresses and other information for him. The customers were later harassed by moneylenders who turned u

SINGAPORE: When a friend from secondary school asked him to help retrieve StarHub customer details, a customer care consultant working for the telecommunications company dutifully obtained addresses and other information for him.Zhang Jiazheng, 39, who is no longer employed by StarHub, was sentenced to 10 weeks' jail on Monday .

He knew his co-accused Lee Cheng Yan as they had attended the same secondary school, and would meet up occasionally for drinks and meals. Despite knowing it was wrong, Zhang agreed. On a total of nine occasions, he accessed StarHub's portals to obtain the addresses of subscribers. He said Zhang is now unemployed, has a young child and was a frontline worker during the pandemic who put himself"in the face of danger".

 

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