John Leyden reports:
A court has ordered a UK hacker to pay compensation after he used a purloined laptop to hack into his ex-employer’s personnel database.
Colin Parker, 31, gained unauthorised access to staff contracts containing salary details and emailed this to around 400 workers at his ex-employer, CHI and Partners. Parker’s attempt to create bad feeling among workers at the firm was foiled by an alert sys admin, who intercepted and deleted the potentially incendiary emails.
Read more in The Register.