Jail chaos as lag hacker is left in charge of computer system
September 28, 2009 by admin
Filed under Breach Incidents, Government Sector, Non-U.S., Of Note, Other
Justin Penrose reports:
A jailed hacker shut down a prison’s entire computer system – after bosses gave him the job of programming it.
Douglas Havard, 27, serving six years for stealing up to £6.5million using forged credit cards over the internet, was approached after governors wanted to create an internal TV station but needed a special computer program written.
He was left unguarded and hacked into the system’s hard drive at Ranby Prison, near Retford, Notts. Then he set up a series of passwords so no one else could get into the system.
Read more on Mirror.
Thanks to Brian Honan for this link.