
Ho at the State Courts in May. He had impersonated two people to deceive Amazon Web Services and Google. — KELVIN CHNG/The Straits Times/ANN
SINGAPORE: A Singaporean impersonated two people to deceive Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google into providing about US$5.4mil (S$7.5mil or RM23.78mil) worth of cloud computing services so he could run a large-scale cryptocurrency mining operation.
Ho Jun Jia, 32, who had illegally obtained their personal information on the Dark Web, was sentenced to 10 years’ jail on Thursday (June 23).
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