A former Liverpool youth footballer has been jailed for supplying drugs after a judge ruled that messages and data harvested by police from the EncroChat encrypted phone network can be lawfully used as evidence in the case. The case, known as Embossed II, was the “lead case” in a long-running legal argument over whether evidence… Continue reading Court finds EncroChat hacked messages admissible as former footballer is jailed
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UK voter data hacked in cyber attack on election watchdog
The UK’s Electoral Commission has fallen victim to a major cyber incident that saw electoral registers containing the personal data of millions of voters accessed by an as-yet undisclosed threat actor. The election watchdog said the attacker first accessed its systems in August 2021 but was able to avoid detection for over 12 months,… Continue reading UK voter data hacked in cyber attack on election watchdog