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Suspected Anonymous hacker arrested after abortion website attack

Mar

2012

In the early hours of this morning, police arrested a 27-year-old man, suspected of defacing and hacking into the website of Britain’s largest single abortion provider. The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) website was compromised yesterday, with a message from a hacker calling themselves “Pablo Escobar”, and linking themselves to the Anonymous hacktivist group. For […]

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Times journalist disciplined for computer hacking

Jan

2012

A public inquiry into the practices and ethics of the British media, following the News of the World “phone hacking” scandal, has heard that a journalist for The Times hacked into computers. According to written evidence given by Simon Toms, News International’s interim director of legal affairs, the unnamed journalist was disciplined in 2009 for […]

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‘Journalists hacked UK government’ – police investigate evidence

Nov

2011

UK police have warned a former British Cabinet minister that they are investigating evidence that his computer has hacked by private detectives working for Rupert Murdoch’s News International organisation and the disgraced “News of the World” newspaper. Peter Hain, who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland between 2005-2007, has been told by Scotland […]

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