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British ISP Sky Broadband Cuts Off ACS:Law

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-net-neutrality? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "British ISP Sky Broadband cut off ACS:Law and refuses to cooperate after at least 4,000 of their customers' information was carelessly leaked. According to Sky Broadband, 'We have suspended all co-operation with ACS:Law with immediate effect. This suspension will remain in place until ACS:Law demonstrates adequate measures to protect the security of personal information.' Sky Broadband had been providing customer information to ACS:Law as part of their anti-piracy operation."

2 of 121 comments (clear)

  1. Re:and the pornography they're accused of sharing by jack2000 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why hello there.

  2. Re:and the pornography they're accused of sharing by matazar · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think the best part is them claiming that they were hacked, when in reality they made the site's backup available on their main page for all to download for a short period of time when they were trying to restore the site after the DDoS attack. A zip file that was not encrypted in any way that contained EVERYTHING.
    Smart move guys! Especially considering the amount of page requests you were getting,