Community service for hacker who crashed HKU online poll

Chan paralysed the university’s website last March 23 when the university’s public opinion programme was holding a simulated open election for the chief executive position

Vincent Chan Cheuk-yin leaves Fan Ling Magistrates Court after being sentenced for crashing a university website running a mock chief executive poll. Photo: Felix Wong

A man who disrupted a University of Hong Kong website running a mock universal suffrage election for the chief executive position was sentenced on Monday to perform 160 hours of community service.

Vincent Chan Cheuk-yin, 29, earlier pleaded guilty in Fanling Court to one count of attempted criminal damage.

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