‘Messiah’ Hacker Faces 162 Charges

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The suspected ‘Messiah’ hacker James Raj Arokiasamy, was handed an additional of 105 charges in the court this Monday morning. This includes charges for securing an unauthorized access into the Fuji Xerox webserver between 1st and 24th of March in the year 2013. The theft of monthly statements of some 650 Standard Chartered Private Bank clients was reported last year from a server of Fuji Xerox, which provides third-party printing services for the bank.

According to Channel News Asia, James Raj is also accused of hacking into and making unauthorized modifications to a fan site created for City Harvest Church co-founder and pop singer Sun Ho. This happened on numerous occasions from Aug 28 to Sep 2, 2013. The 36-year-old is also accused of scanning several City Harvest Church-related webservers on Oct 15 last year, and several government-related websites between Oct 18 and Nov 4 last year. The websites that were scanned included that of the Singapore Prison Service, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore Elections Department, and Ministry of Communications and Information.

Raj also faces four drug related charges. On the 6th of June, he was charged on another 52 counts in the open court. These included charges for hacking into the People’s Action Party Community Foundation webserver and the Straits Times blog, as well as additional charges for the Ang Mo Kio Town Council website hacking incident.

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