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Two from Team Poison arrested in MI6 hotline phone hack

Two teens arrested in connection with reports that hackers accessed Scotland Yard’s anti-terror hotline. Hackers claimed to have carried out the cyber-attack in response to the detention of innocent people on terrorism charges. They claimed they can listen into calls on the confidential hotline at any time and described the Metropolitan Police’s security as an “illusion” It is understood Team Poison used readily available software to bombard the Scotland Yard phone line, but routed the activity through a computer server based in Malaysia in order to cover their tracks.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2012/04/two-from-team-poison-arrested-in-mi6.html

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