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alp227

(32,047 posts)
Thu Apr 12, 2012, 12:30 PM Apr 2012

MI6 anti-terrorism officials' phone call is recorded and leaked on internet

Source: The Guardian

Scotland Yard is investigating after computer hackers intercepted a highly sensitive anti-terror phone call and leaked it on the internet.

A hacking group named TeamPoison claimed responsibility for the cyber-attack and said it was made in protest at extradition laws.

The group uploaded a recording on YouTube apparently consisting of conversations between Met police anti-terror hotline staff and two recordings of prank calls it made to the hotline.

In a four-minute recording of a phone conversation between anti-terror officers on Thursday morning, one officer can be heard saying that the anti-terror hotline had been subject to about 700 phone calls "from a group known as TeamPoison".

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/12/met-police-anti-terrorism-hotline

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MI6 anti-terrorism officials' phone call is recorded and leaked on internet (Original Post) alp227 Apr 2012 OP
Two arrests over Scotland Yard terror line hack dipsydoodle Apr 2012 #1
Idiots. truthisfreedom Apr 2012 #2
Because video is available and it is so much easier than crafting pranks so unique they're yours saras Apr 2012 #3

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
1. Two arrests over Scotland Yard terror line hack
Thu Apr 12, 2012, 07:43 PM
Apr 2012

Two teenage boys have been arrested in connection with an investigation into reports that hackers accessed Scotland Yard's anti-terror hotline.

The Metropolitan Police said officers arrested the 16 and 17 year olds in the West Midlands.

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Hackers Team Poison posted recordings online to YouTube, which apparently show them speaking to the hotline, plus officers discussing operations.

The teenagers were arrested on suspicion of offences under the Malicious Communications Act and the Computer Misuse Act.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17698528

 

saras

(6,670 posts)
3. Because video is available and it is so much easier than crafting pranks so unique they're yours
Fri Apr 13, 2012, 02:52 AM
Apr 2012

It's not like kids kept their pranks secret BEFORE video. Why is there a whole magazine called Infiltration about breaking into abandoned buildings and infrastructure and taking photographs? Why are there fifty-year-old photographs of so many things that people obviously shouldn't have taken photographs of (Tad's 4-Way Santa cover comes to mind)? Why do graffiti writers, whether spectacular artists or just kids scrawling something, write their name more often than anything else?

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