PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Gordyola]

Well if thats the case then its hardly City's fault is it. How can we protect against a member of staff having is password set to City123 and the other fella guessing correctly.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/contents

No its all on the user of the information. unless the information was given with the express permission of the owner then it is irrelevant, if you are aware of someone's logon details that doesn't given you permission, logon details are classified as secret in most organisations. Using such information is a criminal offence under the misuse of computer act 1990.

Unauthorised access to computer material.​

(1)A person is guilty of an offence if—

(a)he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer [F1, or to enable any such access to be secured];

(b)the access he intends to secure [F2, or to enable to be secured,] is unauthorised; and

(c)he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case.

(2)The intent a person has to have to commit an offence under this section need not be directed at—

(a)any particular program or data;

(b)a program or data of any particular kind; or

(c)a program or data held in any particular computer.

[F3(3)A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable—

(a)on summary conviction in England and Wales, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding [F4the general limit in a magistrates’ court] or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to both;

(b)on summary conviction in Scotland, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding [F512] months or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to both;

(c)on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine or to both.]

 

[Gordyola]

Can Prestwich Blue give us a definitive answer as to the ownership of MCFC? Is it a very rich Sheik or the state of Abu Dhabi.I am fed up of hearing all the pundits, so called journalists and fans of other clubs spouting their bile on the subject.I dont mind either way but it would be good to know the truth on the subject.

Manchester City Limited is 100% owned by the City Football Group

CFG is majority owned by Newton Investment and Development LLC, with a significant minority shareholding held by global technology investment firm, Sliver Lake (18.16%).

 

[the talisman]

Can’t believe people are so quick to blame City for all this shit.
If you leave a window unlocked and someone comes in and steals stuff you may have been a bit careless but the scumbag that took advantage is a thieving ****.
Some of the biggest companies in the world have been hacked, the fault lies squarely with the hacker. “Self inflicted” …… fuck off

 

[David Kloppesh]

Can’t believe people are so quick to blame City for all this shit.
If you leave a window unlocked and someone comes in and steals stuff you may have been a bit careless but the scumbag that took advantage is a thieving ****.
Some of the biggest companies in the world have been hacked, the fault lies squarely with the hacker. “Self inflicted” …… fuck off

What if City left those passwords unchanged on purpose? :)

 

[levets]

100% and probably why we were more than happy to keep in quite in terms of the scousers.

Not changing login details and passwords after losing important members of staff to a rival was embarrassing in fact it was total incompetence.

And also having a senior execs emails hacked by a Portuguese kid in his bedroom has caused our club untold issues.

They used Rob Newmans (City scout) details. Rob was still at City. That’s why it wasn’t discovered until a long time after.

 

[Centurions]

Can’t believe people are so quick to blame City for all this shit.
If you leave a window unlocked and someone comes in and steals stuff you may have been a bit careless but the scumbag that took advantage is a thieving ****.
Some of the biggest companies in the world have been hacked, the fault lies squarely with the hacker. “Self inflicted” …… fuck off

Some supposed Blues are only too happy to blame City first and foremost regardless of facts.

 

[Son of Merv]

Some supposed Blues are only too happy to blame City first and foremost regardless of facts.

It isn't about 'blaming City'. Data Protection laws are there to protect the data subjects and ensure any data controller processes data fairly and with adequate security.
If this case did become of interest to the ICO, the first question they would ask is 'how did the Liverpool employees get hold of the password?'. We don't know how they knew, but it would appear to be entirely on City that they did. It doesn't matter what 'Liverpool' did, City allowed it to happen and failed to keep data they hold safe.
Both Liverpool and City reached an agreement that the matter would go no further, no data subjects complained and no action was taken by any authorities. Both sides have a lot to answer for, but everyone agrees it's done with.

 

[Centurions]

It isn't about 'blaming City'. Data Protection laws are there to protect the data subjects and ensure any data controller processes data fairly and with adequate security.
If this case did become of interest to the ICO, the first question they would ask is 'how did the Liverpool employees get hold of the password?'. We don't know how they knew, but it would appear to be entirely on City that they did. It doesn't matter what 'Liverpool' did, City allowed it to happen and failed to keep data they hold safe.
Both Liverpool and City reached an agreement that the matter would go no further, no data subjects complained and no action was taken by any authorities. Both sides have a lot to answer for, but everyone agrees it's done with.

Did you not just prove my point?



And if it's "done with" why do people keep bringing it up?

 

[Son of Merv]

Did you not just prove my point?



And if it's "done with" why do people keep bringing it up?

'We' don't know...the parties that matter do. City were the Data Controller and allowed data to be accessed by an outside source. We weren't illegally hacked. We did not maintain proper security of a low level data base and that is on us.

I don't know why people keep bringing it up...deflection?, 'whataboutism'?, gaslighting? a sense of injustice that Liverpool 'get away with stuff'? City took action appropriate to the situation and people need to accept that and move on.

 

[waspish]

'We' don't know...the parties that matter do.

I don't know why people keep bringing it up...deflection?, 'whataboutism'?, gaslighting? a sense of injustice that Liverpool 'get away with stuff'? City took action appropriate to the situation and people need to accept that and move on.

Agree and it was good it was kept out the news social media! Now if it was city hacking I think someone at Liverpool would have leaked it and made a right meal out of it! You know why that's how they do it when they believe they've been hard done too..