Man Arrested for trying to sell Pep’s hacked emails

gordondaviesmoustache said:
In terms of Francis that simply isn't correct. I've heard him talk very fondly on TV of his time with us and about City supporters too.
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Trevor Francis still holds a grudge against the club he said he hasn't forgiven for what he described at the time as false promises , he was told further stars would follow his record transfer
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Front page of The Sun today. Hardly a splash.

A 'rogue IT worker'

Appears we might well have people working inside the club against us?
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Our organizational security is all over the place.

We get our corporate emails hacked and now that's used to cause us the potential problem and losses of at least 200 million.

Liverpool hack our scouting database and find, amongst other, our info about Coutinho who they later bought and sold for profit that helps them significantly to close the gap on us and open their own.

Pep's emails get hacked by some contractor and God knows ehat kind of important info is exposed.

And on top of that, someone from our camp is leaking team line-ups and tactics to journalist before one of the most important games in club's history.

The heads should roll for this inside the club.
 
Blueknows said:
Trevor Francis still holds a grudge against the club he said he hasn't forgiven for what he described at the time as false promises , he was told further stars would follow his record transfer
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1. You said he never had a good word to say about City. That is not correct. I have heard him say good things about City.

2. Are you actually suggesting that Francis has openly said he “hasn’t forgiven” the club for some promise that Peter Swales made him some 38 years ago, or are you paraphrasing?

He was here for less than a season, much of which he was injured for, following which he went to a World Cup with England, and it provided a stepping stone for a big money move to Sampdoria. What reason would he have for not forgiving the club?

Seems a strange thing to say in the circumstances.
 
I'm With Stupid said:
Let's be honest, our IT security is probably no worse than any other club. The difference is that no other club has been subject to the sort of 10 year smear campaign that makes people think it might be worth hacking into their systems.
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That's irrelevant, our club should be run far better in term of IT security.

The leaking of team sheets should be nipped in the bud very, very quickly and if it is coming from a player, whoever and whatever his status they should be severely punished and transfer listed.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
1. You said he never had a good word to say about City. That is not correct. I have heard him say good things about City.

2. Are you actually suggesting that Francis has openly said he “hasn’t forgiven” the club for some promise that Peter Swales made him some 38 years ago, or are you paraphrasing?

He was here for less than a season, much of which he was injured for, following which he went to a World Cup with England, and it provided a stepping stone for a big money move to Sampdoria. What reason would he have for not forgiving the club?

Seems a strange thing to say in the circumstances.
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When I was 12, I spent my school dinner money - a whole one pound, IIRC - on opening an account at the Cheshire Building Society on Wilbraham Road in Chorlton because everyone who opened an account that day got their picture taken with Trevor Francis. I was gutted when we sold him, for a loss of £400K on what we paid for him as well, after using him in adverts on Piccadilly Radio for season tickets for the following season and after Swales promising that there was no way he'd be sold. The sale did serious damage to our status as one of the big clubs of English football IMO.

I've heard Francis say before that he was disappointed to leave City. He was happy at the club and thought that we could have had success had he stayed and had we invested in the team as promised to him when he signed. But other comments I've heard him make suggest that he had a lot of time for the club and the fans, and could distinguish between those elements of MCFC on the one hand and a board of directors by whose abilities he wasn't impressed on the other. I've been in the company of Rodney Marsh, who loved the club and the fans but was upset by the way the board handled his departure, and heard him express very similar views. Some fans can't tell the difference, unfortunately.
 
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petrusha said:
I've heard Francis say before that he was disappointed to leave City. He was happy at the club and thought that we could have had success had he stayed and had we invested in the team as promised to him when he signed. But other comments I've heard him make suggest that he had a lot of time for the club and the fans, and could distinguish between those elements of MCFC and a board of directors by whose abilities he wasn't impressed.
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That’s essentially what I heard him say, don’t know if it was the same extract. I get the strong vibe that he had little or no time (or respect) for Swales. I recall him previously saying there were some issues around his wages being paid on time, which sounds typically like small-time Swales to me. What an utter fucking clown that man was.

However, as you say, it didn’t appear to allow that to cloud his wider views about the club, its supporters and his time here, certainly based on what I’ve heard.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
That’s essentially what I heard him say, don’t know if it was the same extract. I get the strong vibe that he had little or no time (or respect) for Swales. I recall him previously saying there were some issues around his wages being paid on time, which sounds typically like small-time Swales to me. What an utter fucking clown that man was.

However, as you say, it didn’t appear to allow that to cloud his wider views about the club, its supporters and his time here, certainly based on what I’ve heard.
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I heard this before and have argued the case on message boards in the past, but he brought out his autobiography out last year and I read at least one review suggesting this is still the line he takes with our club. Yes, I think the wages point is correct and I agree with everything you say about PJS.

Most of the publicity focused on him caring for his wife as she was dying of cancer and then her death, which has hit him hard. He didn't do much co-commentary/punditry work for a while after that but said he's looking to get back in, so I wish him well with that.
 
quiet_riot said:
As I said previously, someone will have had to give this guy Pep's ProtonMail password, otherwise if the password was reset, all the emails would have been deleted, Proton is that secure.

So yeah, it will have been easy
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From the criminal's meeting with the journalist

The man claimed to have been a contractor for the Blues for around two years from 2016, until City ended its relationship with the IT firm.
Over two days in July 2017 he accessed Pep’s account from his mobile, downloading personal emails, confidential transfer exchanges and the manager’s entire contacts book.

He showed the investigators several screenshots that had been sent to his encrypted ProtonMail email account — which he claimed police would not be able to access.
Pushed on where the other material was stored, he simply said it was “safe”.

It reads to me that the Proton account was his not Pep's
 
Gordyola said:
From the criminal's meeting with the journalist

The man claimed to have been a contractor for the Blues for around two years from 2016, until City ended its relationship with the IT firm.
Over two days in July 2017 he accessed Pep’s account from his mobile, downloading personal emails, confidential transfer exchanges and the manager’s entire contacts book.

He showed the investigators several screenshots that had been sent to his encrypted ProtonMail email account — which he claimed police would not be able to access.
Pushed on where the other material was stored, he simply said it was “safe”.

It reads to me that the Proton account was his not Pep's
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Ah right, yes that makes more sense.
City will more than likely have their own exchange server, although I assume Pep isn't pep.guardiola@mancity.com!!
 
petrusha said:
When I was 12, I spent my school dinner money - a whole one pound, IIRC - on opening an account at the Cheshire Building Society on Wilbraham Road in Chorlton because everyone who opened an account that day got their picture taken with Trevor Francis. I was gutted when we sold him, for a loss of £400K on what we paid for him as well, after using him in adverts on Piccadilly Radio for season tickets for the following season and after Swales promising that there was no way he'd be sold. The sale did serious damage to our status as one of the big clubs of English football IMO.

I've heard Francis say before that he was disappointed to leave City. He was happy at the club and thought that we could have had success had he stayed and had we invested in the team as promised to him when he signed. But other comments I've heard him make suggest that he had a lot of time for the club and the fans, and could distinguish between those elements of MCFC on the one hand and a board of directors by whose abilities he wasn't impressed on the other. I've been in the company of Rodney Marsh, who loved the club and the fans but was upset by the way the board handled his departure, and heard him express very similar views. Some fans can't tell the difference, unfortunately.
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Sold Francis and got a pie crust roof. Such were the priorities on planet Swales.
 
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