in november 2006, chen purchased a pink powerbook personal computer, a photograph of which he published on his blog. it may have come from "elite multimedia", a computer shop in hong kong's central district. according to the police, chen brought his computer to the shop for repairs in 2007. employees who discovered over 1,300 intimate photographs of chen and numerous female celebrities may have secretly copied these files. according to chen, the image files were deleted before the computer was taken in for repairs.