Investigation in Liverpool's 'hacking' of our computer systems

[Man_City_Loyal]

I doubt we could have destroyed their reputation. Bigger events were somewhat consigned to the 'oh well' category https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heysel_Stadium_disaster

never happened

 

[Maly]

As I said earlier in the thread, both parties could have faced action under different parts of the Data Protection Act. Liverpool for the hacking (criminal offences under both the DPA and the Computer Misuse Act) and City for having poor security which could have made it easier for them to get in (a possible civil fine from the ICO). I strongly suspect this is why we settled

Of course. Considering the details they hacked were about individuals, probably medical info too, this would have been a GDPR breach, which I believe would have cost us £20 mill or 2% of our annual turnover, whichever was higher. Cheers fir clearing that up mate :)

 

[wattle]

never happened

What didn’t?

 

[wattle]

As I said earlier in the thread, both parties could have faced action under different parts of the Data Protection Act. Liverpool for the hacking (criminal offences under both the DPA and the Computer Misuse Act) and City for having poor security which could have made it easier for them to get in (a possible civil fine from the ICO). I strongly suspect this is why we settled

Exactly this

 

[LongsightM13]

Of course. Considering the details they hacked were about individuals, probably medical info too, this would have been a GDPR breach, which I believe would have cost us £20 mill or 2% of our annual turnover, whichever was higher. Cheers fir clearing that up mate :)

It pre dated GDPR and the 2018 legislation but we still could have been fined up to £500,000 under the old Data Protection Act 1998.
The Liverpool staff responsible could and should have got jail time under the Computer Misuse Act. Concerted and repeated illegal accesses for financial gain/advantage would easily pass the threshold for custodial sentences.
It was obviously sanctioned at the very highest levels of that rancid organisation as the two suspected of being responsible were actually promoted by the club instead of being sacked

 

[Maly]

It pre dated GDPR and the 2018 legislation but we still could have been fined up to £500,000 under the old Data Protection Act 1998.
The Liverpool staff responsible could and should have got jail time under the Computer Misuse Act. Concerted and repeated illegal accesses for financial gain/advantage would easily pass the threshold for custodial sentences.
It was obviously sanctioned at the very highest levels of that rancid organisation as the two suspected of being responsible were actually promoted by the club instead of being sacked

Thanks for the correction Blue :)

 

[LongsightM13]

Thanks for the correction Blue :)

No worries. It is one of the strange foibles of that particular area of law that we would have almost certainly been punished more harshly than the organisation which encouraged its employees to hack us

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

It was obviously sanctioned at the very highest levels of that rancid organisation as the two suspected of being responsible were actually promoted by the club instead of being sacked

There can be little doubt about this.

 

[LongsightM13]

There can be little doubt about this.

I’m sure the senior officials and directors responsible would have left themselves enough ‘plausible deniability’ to wriggle out of it and throw their employees under the bus if necessary

 

[Blue Mist]

She is up. ;-)
I was only suggesting it for the thread titles if the software won’t allow the other word. As I always say I don’t have any ‘feelings’ one way or the other over language as long as no one asks me to swear. Just my old fashioned upbringing I guess. A slap or a threat of soapy mouth washing deters people! :-) :-)

Ha ha I was meaning @gordondaviesmoustache wont be up yet. I have it on good authority that he doesn't rise until the sun is over the yard arm