Liverpool pay City £1 million in "spy" settlement for hacking - biggest PL scandal

[PSam1]

United did not do this. doesnt matter how much you hate them we all must admit they still possess some morality and character.

I don't even know where to begin with this but here goes:

Is this the story about the rancid meat? If so where can I find it so that I can forward it to a rag cousin or two of mine who think Utd are holier than thou?
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[stony]

Is this the story about the rancid meat? If so where can I find it so that I can forward it to a rag cousin or two of mine who think Utd are holier than thou?

There's a bit about it on Louis Edwards wiki page.

Edwards' meat packaging business was a financially successful enterprise in the 1970s, but an investigation by the Granada Television/ITV investigative journalism series World in Action, broadcast on the ITV network in January 1980, alleged that such dominance had in fact been achieved through bribing school officials in order to win lucrative contracts in cities such as Manchester.[2]
The Granada investigation also claimed that his company supplied condemned meat that was unfit for human consumption to be used in school dinners

Even before they poached Giggs they were bang at it

The investigation also exposed how Manchester United had a secret fund for bribing parents of young players the club wished to recruit. In one case in the early 1960s it was alleged that a bribe of £5,000 was paid to the parents of Peter Lorimer, a promising young player whom the club had wanted to recruit. The bung was in fact later returned when the player chose Leeds United instead though this was a clear breach of football association rules.[4] Investigations by the police into Edwards' dealings were never fully completed due to his death soon after the inquiries began.[5] The FA decided against a formal investigation and merely discussed the issue instead.[6]

 

[City Raider]

how come our itks only know about transfers ;)

 

[GXCity]

how come our itks only know about transfers ;)

Wrong place to say anything which could jeopardise the case. It would also drop Ric in the shit if anything appeared on here.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Scout7 announcement:
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2343425/Scout7-deny-hacked-Manchester-City-leak-allegations.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... tions.html</a>

I thought they wouldn't stay quiet for too long. By that announcement Scout7 are saying that this issue is abuse of the system by an MCFC employee who may be (or may no longer be) an MCFC employee.

 

[sweynforkbeard]

United did not do this. doesnt matter how much you hate them we all must admit they still possess some morality and character.

I don't even know where to begin with this but here goes:

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Of all these it is the Louis Edwards school meat stories that are to my mind the the most abominable. The source of their first splurge of wealth and rarely mentioned or easily forgotten. Not by me.

 

[Why Always Ste]

From DailY Fail

Scouting website deny being hacked after City's transfer 'secrets' may have leaked

The company at the centre of allegations that Manchester City's scouting secrets have been leaked has rejected any suggestion that its' system has been hacked.

Birmingham-based Scout7 has distanced itself from claims that their security has been breached, insisting that human error is to blame if any confidential information has been misplaced.

The Midlands' firm is the industry's leading tool for scouting information and Manchester City are trying to find the source of any potential leak.

The company operates using a complex and unique system of passwords among the 2,000 club staff that has access to its' comprehensive database of players.

And it rejects the notion that another club has been accessing files to discover the club's potential imports.

Manchester City continue to investigate whether a rival has obtained details of this summer's signings. Scout7 says there are two-way confidentiality agreements in place with its' clients and refused to discuss an individual club.

However, the statement issued made clear that the company feels the integrity of their system remains intact.

It read: 'Scout7 is aware of the erroneous publicity about supposed hacking of a client of the Scout7 system.

'We understand that the incident is still being investigated but involves use of valid passwords obtained from the Club concerned to gain illegal access to a private database.The security or technical integrity of Scout7 systems has not been undermined by this incident.

'Scout7 point out that the security and confidentiality of client's databases has always been and remains of the utmost importance and protecting Club's private data continues to be an integral feature of our systems.'

 

[ianw16]

So, the previous post would indicate that this isn't some sort of organised hack attack as such. Therefore we're looking at previous employees. Shouldn't be difficult to match up the access dates for usernames of previous employees and compare them to the dates when they left the club. Not going to need to much of a forensic investigation really. Narrows the likely culprits down a bit. Wouldn't surprise me if the club involved took proactive measures to limit the damage, before it becomes public. Of course, the employee could have downloaded the data while still in the employ of City, in the knowledge that he would be leaving shortly. Unless he was computer savvy, then the details of a USB stick used (for instance) would still remain in the registry on City's computers, and in windows log files.

 

[Eds]

And who with access to the system has left recently? Shouldn't be too hard to point the finger at an individual person or persons. Looks like a Premier leagueub may be looking for some new scouts in the not too distant future.

 

[TCIB]

Whoever they are they must be thick as pig shit to think such an action would not be logged.
I hope it was worth it for them.