An army sergeant major who claimed to have obtained the personal digitalised data of 55 million Thais surrendered to police on Wednesday and confessed he just wanted to be in the spotlight.
He said he did not hack the data himself, he bought it from actual hackers, and it was 8 million data records, not 55 million.
SM2 Khemarat Boonchuai, 33, gave himself up at the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB) in Nonthaburi province on Wednesday. He had been been absent without leave from the Army Transportation Department, where he works as a driver, since April 3.
Authorities had been…
