British Man Pleads Guilty to Hacking Pregnancy Services Agency

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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/251661/british_man_pleads_guilty_to_hacking_pregnancy_services_agency.html

By Jeremy Kirk
IDG-News-Service
March 11, 2012

A 27-year-old man pleaded guilty on Saturday in a British court to 
hacking the website of a reproductive health services agency, obtaining 
the details of people who had registered on the website.

James Jeffery, of Wednesbury in the West Midlands, pleaded guilty to two 
offenses of gaining unauthorized access to a computer under the Computer 
Misuse Act of 1990, according to a statement from the Metropolitan 
Police Service. A sentencing date has not been set.

The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) said in a statement it 
detected 26,000 attempts on Thursday to break into its website over a 
six-hour period. The website was also defaced with a logo of Anonymous, 
the hacker collective that saw several of its alleged highly skilled 
members charged last Tuesday by U.S. authorities.

Jeffery, who was arrested early Friday, did not obtain "medical or 
personal information relating to women who had received treatment at 
BPAS," the agency said. However, its website stored names, addresses and 
phone numbers of people who requested information on services such as 
contraception, abortion, and sterilization.

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