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UK: Student found guilty of hacking firm’s emails

Posted on October 7, 2016 by Dissent

David Parker reports:

A university student has been ordered to pay more than £7,000 compensation after he hacked the emails of a garden furniture company and targeted one of its customers.

Moshood Olawale Abolade, 26, of Hatchets Lane, Newark, had denied fraud by false representation.

He was found guilty after a trial at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on Friday and appeared for sentencing on Monday.

Abolade was given a community order for a year, during which time he must complete 150 hours’ unpaid work.

He was ordered to pay £7,148 to Gaze Burvill, a company that sells high-end garden furniture online, and £350 towards court costs.

The prosecutor, Mr Mark Fielding, said Abolade, a student at Northampton University, hacked the company’s emails and sent an email to a woman who had placed an order for items worth £7,148. He had replaced the company’s bank account details with his own.

 

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In a statement read in court the company’s operations director said their emails had been hacked when an employee clicked on a link to what appeared to be a Dropbox file.

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