Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Private-eye hackers are convicted

Two police officers who moonlighted as private detectives have been <A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6766841.stm">convicted of bugging phones and hacking into computers</A> on behalf of wealthy clients.

Jeremy Young and Scott Gelsthorpe set up Active Investigation Services and ran a service dubbed "Hackers Are Us".

In January, eight other men were sentenced after pleading guilty to conspiring to intercept phone calls or emails, or false accounting.

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