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UK Cybersecurity Executives Plead Guilty To Hacking A Rival Firm (zdnet.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the catch-me-if-you-can dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "Five employees from cybersecurity firm Quadsys have admitted to hacking into a rival company's servers to allegedly steal customer data and pricing information," ZDNet is reporting. After a series of hearings, five top-ranking employees "admitted to obtaining unauthorised access to computer materials to facilitate the commission of an offence," including the company's owner, managing director, and account manager. Now they're facing 12 months in prison or fines, as well as additional charges, at their sentencing hearing in September. The headline at ZDNet gloats, "Not only did the Quadsys staff reportedly break into servers, they were caught doing it."

3 of 14 comments (clear)

  1. Security: You keep using that word... by rmdingler · · Score: 3, Funny
    It's not that I'd encourage my cyber security team to hack into a rival firm;

    It's just that if they did, I'd expect them not to get caught.

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    Ernest Hemingway

    1. Re:Security: You keep using that word... by lucm · · Score: 2

      "Cyber security" is stretching things a bit, they're essentially some kind of GeekSquad and their "security" expertise is installing antivirus software.

      The article title is misleading, I guess it creates more traffic than "small IT provider gets caught trying to hack the Google Drive of another small IT provider".

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      lucm, indeed.
  2. Re:WHO DID THEY HACK? by Cederic · · Score: 2

    the incompetent buffoons who

    ..identified an attack, identified the people behind it and took out a competitor.

    Given that perfect security is effectively impossible, I'll take that booby prize.