A Russian hosting company with ties to the UK and the US has become the victim of a huge hack attack, vnunet.com website reports.
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December 4, 2006The highly-sophisticated international operation, run with the help of a disgraced ex-Russian bank chief, saw tens of thousands of British, American and Spanish account holders defrauded out of millions of pounds, Yorkshire Post reports.
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All online dating sites suffer from dating scammers, 99 percent of the emails are hoaxes designed by professional Internet criminals says Elena Petrova the founder of Russian Brides Cyber Guide.
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November 7, 2006A British judge has ruled that a case involving a UK company’s servers being hacked from Russia can be tried in the UK, the plativax.co.uk web site reports.
The ruling comes over a bitter dispute after UK company Ashton claims its server in London were hacked in order to retreive sensitive commercial data on one of its client companies, Ansol.
Ashton claims Russian aluminiun company Ruscal and Tajikstan company, TadAZ, were behind the repeated server hackings.
Hack attempts were traced to a number of IP across Russia, including Ruscal’s own IP’s.
Ruscal claims a Wi-Fi system it operated at the time was insecure, and was therefore used by third-parties, rather than Ruscal employees.
While the case had yet to be brought to court, there has been a bitter dispute over legal jurisdiction.
However, Jonathan Hirst QC, sitting as a deputy judge of the High Court, ruled that as the servers were based in London, the legal jurisdiction was London, regardless as to where the data was sent to after.
This could be a very important case, because hacking and other illegal internet activity is flourishing in Eastern Europe and Russia.
While normally these illegal activities may not be seen as actionable, the ruling today means that if a UK company suffers hacking or other illegal damage to its IT infrastructure, there remains the possibility of bringing legal action in the UK.
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November 1, 2006
Two students from the Russian city of Yekaterinburg have been jailed for committing matrimonial fraud with foreigners over the Internet.
One of the convicts, the 28-year-old woman, had sent out her pictures to a number of international matrimonial agencies. After exchanging letters with several men from the United States, Canada and Great Britain the girl asked potential fiances to send her money so she could travel to their countries and meet them in person. Upon receiving the donations which amounted up to $3,000, the girl broke the correspondence.
The court sentenced both to prison terms in a minimum-security correctional labor facility. The girl was sentenced to 5 years and her partner got a 5.5 year prison term.
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