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West Kent UK Residents Suffer After String of Criminal Attacks on BT Cables

30th May, 2017 (1 Comment)

Homes and businesses around the villages of Dunton Green and Chipstead in Kent (England) have faced multiple losses of broadband and phone connectivity after criminals repeatedly damaged Openreach’s (BT) local telecoms cables between 18th and 26th May 2017.

ICO Fines UK Business ISP Onecom £100,000 for 3.3 Million SPAM Texts

18th May, 2017 (0 Comments)

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has hit Hampshire-based business broadband ISP Onecom with a fine of £100,000 after they “broke the law” by sending millions of SPAM texts about mobile phone upgrades, which triggered 1,050 complaints from the public.

Two More TalkTalk ISP Hackers Convicted of 2015 Cyber-Attack Involvement

27th April, 2017 (0 Comments)

The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales has convicted two further men (Matthew Hanley and Conner Douglas Allsopp) of involvement with the hacking of TalkTalk’s website during October 2015, which exposed masses of customer details and cost the provider £42m.

Big UK Broadband ISPs Blocking 3,814 Internet Piracy Related URLs

21st March, 2017 (6 Comments)

One of the major broadband ISPs involved in enforcing a court-ordered block of websites that facilitate Internet piracy (copyright infringement) has revealed that their filters are now preventing access to a total of 3,814 URLs (sites), although this figure doesn’t tell the whole story.

Three UK Revise 2016 Data Breach, Reveals 210,000 Customers Affected

15th March, 2017 (4 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has revealed that 76,373 more customers than initially reported were affected by last year’s data breach of their database (i.e. users eligible for a phone upgrade), which means that a total of 210,000+ users had their personal data compromised (up from 133,827).

BBC Probe Claims TalkTalk Call Centre Scam Involved “hundreds of staff”

6th March, 2017 (10 Comments)

Several whistle-blowers’ claim to have revealed details of a significant scam that operated from “call centres” in two Indian cities and involved “hundreds of staff“, many of which had been “hired to scam customers” of UK based broadband and phone provider TalkTalk.

H2O Networks Fibre Optic Fraudsters Sent to Prison for Total of 44 Years

13th February, 2017 (6 Comments)

Last week we reported on the case of four men who had been found guilty of a £160m financing fraud that involved Total Asset Finance (TAF) and H2O Networks Ltd. (here), which was one of the UK’s early FTTH/P network pioneers. The men have now been sentenced to a total of 44 years in jail.

Trespassers Disrupt BT’s Westwood Exchange in Peterborough

9th February, 2017 (18 Comments)

BT’s Westwood Exchange (EMWSTWO), which is located in central Peterborough (Cambridgeshire) and serves 10,000 premises in the city, is suffering on-going disruption after a number of trespassers gained access to the property last Friday evening (3rd Feb 2017) and remain on the site.

UPDATE Court Convicts £160m H2O Networks Fibre Broadband Fraudsters

8th February, 2017 (0 Comments)

After years of waiting the Southwark Crown Court has found four men guilty of a £160 million financing fraud, which is a case that began in 2010/11 (here) after the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) opened an investigation into one of the UK’s early pioneers of alternative fibre optic broadband networks.

UK ISP BT Warns Email Using Customers After 2nd Massive Yahoo! Hack

15th December, 2016 (14 Comments)

A staggering 1 billion accounts belonging to Internet giant Yahoo! have been breached by a second major hack, albeit one that occurred in August 2013. Today BT Retail and other broadband ISPs that have used the firm for their email (e.g. Sky Broadband) are warning customers to change their passwords.

UPDATE Teenage TalkTalk ISP Hacker Given Rehabilitation Order by Court

13th December, 2016 (13 Comments)

A little too lenient? The Norwich Youth Court has today handed down a Rehabilitation Order to a 17-year-old boy after he admitted to seven charges under the Computer Misuse Act 1990, two of which are in connection with last year’s cyber-attack on TalkTalk. They also took his iPhone away.

UPDATE2 Data Breach At Three UK Impacts 133,827 Mobile Customers

18th November, 2016 (15 Comments)

Six million customers of mobile operator Three UK could be at risk after the provider admitted that a database of users (those eligible for a phone upgrade) was breached. Three people have already been arrested in connection with the situation, but the operator has done little to inform users.

TalkTalk Hack – Boy Admits 7 Charges Under the Computer Misuse Act

15th November, 2016 (7 Comments)

A 17-year-old boy, who is too young to be named, has today admitted to seven charges under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 in connection with last year’s cyber-attack on TalkTalk’s website and the subsequent leaking of customer details. The case is being heard by the Norwich Youth Court.

High Court Forces Big UK Broadband ISPs to Block 13 More Piracy Sites

1st November, 2016 (7 Comments)

The Motion Picture Association of Europe (MPA) has once again convinced the High Court to force all of the United Kingdom’s largest broadband ISPs to block access to 13 extra websites, which were all found to facilitate Internet copyright infringement (piracy).

UK ISP TalkTalk Hit by HUGE £400,000 Fine for Personal Data Breach

5th October, 2016 (15 Comments)

Ouch. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has today battered budget ISP TalkTalk with a “record fine” of £400,000 because of “security failings” that occurred during last October’s devastating personal data breach and cyber-attack.

TalkTalk Hack – Teenager Held UK ISP to Ransom for 465 Bitcoins

27th September, 2016 (20 Comments)

The Westminster Magistrates Court has heard how 19-year-old Daniel Kelley, who was arrested in Llanelli (South Wales) at the end of last year on suspicion of blackmail, attempted to extort 465 Bitcoins (worth £216K) from TalkTalk following the devastating 2015 Cyber-Attack on their systems.

Boss of Notorious UK Internet Copyright Troll Firm Sent to JAIL in Tears

24th September, 2016 (6 Comments)

The Managing Director of consultancy firm Hatton & Berkeley (H&B), Robert Croucher, which became notorious for hounding subscribers of UK ISPs (e.g. Sky Broadband) with letters demanding payment for suspected Internet piracy, has been sent to jail in tears after assaulting a Taxi driver.