In the fall out of the Edison Chen racy photos case, Hong Kong police said that some 1,300 private shots of celebrities were stolen from a faulty personal computer, they did not mention who the computer belonged to.
"A person had taken his computer to be fixed, but during the maintenance period, someone used dishonest means to take some information from the computer and distributed this information indiscriminately to others," assistant police commissioner Wong Fook-chuen told reporters.
According to Hong Kong's Sudden Weekly magazine, an unnamed source said the photos were taken from a faulty computer belonging to Chen. It was sent for repairs sometime in the middle of 2006. The source said that his friend was working at the repair shop when a young customer, believed to be someone close to Edison, walked into the store with a pink Powerbook. He said that the friend remembered the incident clearly because pink Powerbooks are not easily found in Hong Kong.
The customer told the shop staff that something was wrong with the Powerbook's hard disk, and said that it was all right even if the computer was beyond repair. However, he left explicit instructions to completely destroy the hard disk if that was the case.
A member of the shop staff attended to the case immediately and it turned out that there was only a minor problem with the computer and little repair was required. The Powerbook was returned to the customer who turned it on. It was then that the shop assistants saw that the intimate photos and videos of Edison and the other female stars.
According to the source, the photos and videos were copied onto a disc by someone, and thus the private photos were leaked without Edison knowing.
