One more person arrested: a loan employee who secretly sold customer information.

Bangkok , Cyber ??police arrested one more person, a loan officer at a private financial institution. Secretly selling information about top customers, selling it cheaply for 1 baht per name, generating substantial income of tens of thousands of baht per month. Some were found to have been sold to call center gangs. Mr. Prasert Chandraruangthong, Minister of Digital Economy and Society, together with PDPC or the Office of the Personal Data Protection Commission or SSO, Police Investigation Bureau Investigation of technological crimes or the National Security Commission and the Office of the National Security Commission The National Cyber ??Security and Security Commission (NHMC) has announced the expansion of its investigation into cases involving perpetrators of the illegal trading of personal data in This time, Operation EP.7 has arrested a total of 9 suspects involved and is in the process of arresting another 2 people. It is an integration and expansion of the results from perpetrators from EP.1 to EP.7 . It was discovered that there was a loan officer at a private financial institution, known as Mr. Suwan, aged 42 years, who had the habit of stealing customer information. of their own financial institutions to adapt, edit, and resell to interested groups such as loan agents and insurance agents, which in some cases fall into the hands of call center gangs Police, S.O.T. 5, collected evidence and asked for court approval to issue an arrest warrant for Mr. Suwan for the offense of 'knowing the personal information of others due to performing duties under this Act, disclosing it to others, causing damage, destroying, altering, altering, or adding to it regardless. all or some parts of computer data of others illegally' according to the Personal Data Protection Act 2019 and the Computer Crime Act (No. 2) 2017 Then searched and arrested Mr. Suwan. At a house in Bang Mae Nang Subdistrict, Bang Yai District, Nonthaburi Province, electronic equipment, portable computers were found. and mobile phones that will fil e images of customer and public information obtained from trading information from other people. and customer information stored Mr. Suwan admitted that he was an official of a financial institution. Serve as the head of credit in coordinating with merchants. Part of customer information will be kept by making notes and remembering it as a document file to be used for resale. This does not follow the steps of the Personal Data Protection Act, which in Suwan will gradually take 3000-5000 customer names at a time who are good credit customers to resell at a price of 1 baht per list, generating tens of thousands of income. baht per month It's been done for almost 2 years. The police therefore coordinated with the NCPO to investigate and find any leaked information. To protect personal information of citizens and investigate and expand the results of those who committed crimes along with this accused. Mr. Siwarak Siwamoksatham, secretary-general of the Personal Data Protection Committee, revealed that statisti cs from November 9, 2023 until February 8, 2024, the PDPC Eagle Eye Center has detected the dissemination of citizens' personal information on the unit's website. Various tasks More than necessary or without proper security, a total of 5,869 units from a total of more than 20,000 units inspected. It was found that 90 percent of them were government agencies. Therefore, there has been a warning and correction. Announcement of the sale of personal information through the social network Facebook has been detected. And there have been 54 cases blocked, also in the past 4 months. There are cases where the court has sentenced offenders to 2 years in prison without parole. Source: Thai News Agency