Teen ‘hacker-for-hire’ slapped with 20-month jail term
A teenager from Norwich has been banged up for 20 months after offering his services as a “hacker-for-hire” and supplying…
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Jailed car crash data thief ordered to pay back £25,500
A former employee of Nationwide Accident Repair Services, who was banged up in jail for six months in November 2018…
Uproar as data rogue pays back £1 despite £1.4m haul
A rogue company director, who trousered an estimated £1.4m fortune from flogging illegal data and who left debts of over…
Cowboy firms face fresh crackdown on ‘data farming’
Rogue businesses which engage in “data farming” have been warned to expect a knock on the door after UK authorities…
‘Utterly ruthless’ TalkTalk hacker jailed for four years
A TalkTalk hacker, who has had the threat of a prison sentence hanging over his head for nearly two-and-a-half years,…
Gang of four sentenced over Axa Insurance data theft
Four men who ran a scam in which customer data was stolen from Axa Insurance and then passed on to…
Car crash data thief hit with six month prison sentence
A former employee of Nationwide Accident Repair Services has been sentenced to six months in prison after pleading guilty to…
Bupa hit by £175,000 fine for mass insider data theft
Bupa Insurance Services has been whacked with a £175,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office for failing to have effective security…
Veterinary recruiter sent to doghouse over data theft
Recruitment consultants might not have the best public image but their reputation has taken yet another knock after one of…
Jailed data theft copper forced to pay back £300,000
A bent police officer, who was jailed in October 2017 for selling car crash victims’ data to claims management firms…