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Team Poison hacker jailed over British Prime Minister security breach

Paul Anderson by Paul Anderson
August 1, 2012
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blair team poisonJunaid Hussain, 18, of Birmingham, breached the Gmail account of Blair aide Katie Kay and stole data including Tony Blair’s address and phonebook – containing email addresses, numbers and postal addresses for Blair’s family, friends and MPs.

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The members of Team Poison then published the hacked information online, sparking security fears about the safety of the former Prime Minister, his friends and associates.

When Hussain was arrested in April, a Facebook chat window on his computer bragged of “hacking a number of different people and organisations, including Tony Blair”.

Hussain’s defence team claimed that his crimes were no worse than a “teenage prank” and compared his antics to those of Oxford University’s notorious Bullingdon Club, whose past members include current British PM David Cameron and London Mayor Boris Johnson.

Such arguments failed to impress Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith at Southwark Crown Court, however, who told Hussian that both the hack and the prank calls to the hotline – which resulted in an 850 per cent increase in calls to the service – deserved a custodial sentence.

Hussain was duly sentenced to six months in prison.

A spell in prison isn’t the best way to start off your adult life. If you have an affinity with computers, don’t misuse your skills to break into the accounts of other people.

Source: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com

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