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UK: Computer hacker controlled victims' webcams from mother's front room

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Dissent

A computer hacker accessed highly personal data and controlled victims’ webcams as part of a sophisticated email scam carried out from his mother’s front room.

Matthew Anderson, 33, was a key member of an international gang, abusing his skills as a computer security expert to target businesses and individuals with spam containing hidden viruses, a court heard.

[…]

Files he saved on his own computer included webcam images of a girl in school uniform, a family photograph of a mother and her newborn baby in hospital and intimate pictures of a sexual nature, Southwark Crown Court in central London was told.

The father-of-five, of Keith, Banffshire, Scotland, also saved CVs, wills and confidential medical reports relating to a seven-year-old boy with autism.

Major national and international organisations, including Macmillan Publishers, the Toyota car company and the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, were also targeted in what prosecutor Hugh Davies described as a “fundamental breach of security”.

Read more on STV.tv

Anyone know what damage was done to the  the hospital in the way of acquisition of PII or PHI or misuse of data?

Category: Health Data

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