An Indian national has been sentenced to 28 weeks in jail for compromising the safety of more than 18,000 files belonging to Singapore’s State Courts while working as an IT vendor, officials said.
Janarthanan Tamil Kovan, 42, pleaded guilty on Monday to endangering the safety of documents belonging to the State Courts and the Government of Singapore under the Official Secrets Act and making an unlawful modification to a government-managed laptop issued to him, local media reported. A third charge was taken into consideration.
Although he had granted an acquaintance remote access to the laptop, no files were transferred during the session.
In June 2024, Janarthanan, a service delivery manager with Lenovo PCCW Solutions, was attached to the State Courts as an external IT vendor. He was a team leader of the State Courts’ cloud system team, which manages various systems and applications of the courts.
Janarthanan was issued with a Lenovo ThinkPad laptop, a government-managed device …
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