COMPUTER CRIMES AND RELATED PHILIPPINE LAWS
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Crimes in the Philippines Related to e-commerce:
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*Crime Committed:
Hacking the government portal "gov.ph" and other government websites making this the first Philippine hacking case to have ended in a conviction.
*Name of Criminal/s:
Filipino Hacker, JJ Maria Giner
*Court’s Decision:
Giner was sentenced to one to two years of imprisonment and will pay a fine of 100,000 pesos.
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*Crime Committed:
Filipino call center agent found guilty of hacking into the company he worked for and stealing credit card details. He was able to make online purchases worth more than $2,000 through illegal means. He was able to break into the computer system of the credit card company affiliated with his former employer Sitel Philippines.
*Name of Criminal/s:
22-year old former call center agent, Jeffric Carlos Abiera.
*Court’s Decision:
He was sentenced by the Quezon City metropolitan court to a minimum imprisonment of one to two years plus a fine of P100,000 ($5,858) in violation of section 33 of the E-Commerce Law.
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*Crime Committed:
The cybercrime involves a former employee of a local manufacturing company accused of stealing company secrets from VMC using a universal serial bus thumb drive, which was used to copy proprietary company information.
*Name of Criminal/s:
Chemists, Roschelle Claro, former head of quality control department of Vibelle Manufacturing Corp. (VMC)
*Court’s Decision:
Although details of the settlement were held by the courts, the license of the chemist was permanently revoked.
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*Crime Committed:
The accused was alleged to have illegally accessed the school's computer system with a password provided by her co-accused.
*Name of Criminal/s:
Leilani Garcia, a former employee of the complainant, Thames International Business School. And her co-accused, Cesar Mañalac, the former IT support chief of Thames.
*Court’s Decision:
Charged with violating a provision of RA 8792, also known as the e-commerce act of 2000,
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*Crime Committed:
Violation of Republic Act (RA) 9262, or the Anti-Violence Against Women and Children Act, for allegedly videotaping their sexual tryst and then uploading it on the Internet without the complainant’s consent.
*Name of Criminal/s:
Former celebrity Doctor Hayden Kho Jr.
*Court’s Decision:
Judge Rodolfo Bonifacio of the Pasig Regional Trial Court Branch 159 dismissed the cases after the prosecution camp failed to present sufficient proof to show Halili was unaware that she was being videotaped while having sex with Kho.
*Source:
http://barriosiete.com/court-junks-katrina-halilis-case-vs-hayden-kho-jr/
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*Crime Committed:
Video Piracy
*Name of Criminal/s:
11 Chinese nationals namely; Jiang Ming Zhi, Jhuang Shang Ti, Zheng Huo, Joshua Chen, Lee Hokbeng, Johan Ang, Uang Zhu Sy, Wen Jhong, William Tan, Kim Diang and Ong Wen San,
*Court’s Decision:
Guilty beyond reasonable doubt and meted them three months and one day terms and each to pay a fine of P500,000 with subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency.
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*Crime Committed:
A quartet of hackers based in the Philippines have allegedly bilked AT&T and possibly other telecommunications companies out of millions, which they channeled to their own bank accounts and to accounts associated with a terrorist organization.
*Name of Criminal/s:
Macnell Gracilla, Francisco Manalac, Regina Balura, and Paul Michael Kwan.
*Court’s Decision:
The four were captured in the raid and are facing charges in the Philippines.
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*Crime Committed:
Conviction for fraud of two Asian foreigners by a local court.
*Name of Criminal/s:
Lim alias Young Ma Park and Leung alias Sung Seub Lee
*Court’s Decision:
The two pleaded guilty when charged, which explained the lighter jail term, normally a maximum of five years, and lower fine.
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*Crime Committed:
Nabbed for credit card fraud. A woman posing as a sales agent for a credit card company was arrested by authorities after she was caught purchasing a laptop computer using someone else’s credit card.
*Name of Criminal/s:
Melinda Asuncion
*Court’s Decision:
Arrested.
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*Crime Committed:
Businessman convicted for software piracy found violating the intellectual property rights of software makers Microsoft and Adobe Systems, court records showed.
*Name of Criminal/s:
Nestor Yao, managing director of Gains Computer and Telecommunications Inc.
*Court’s Decision:
The local businessman faces a prison sentence of one year for one case, and three to six years for the other case. The court also required him to pay a total of 200,000 pesos.
