A COMPUTER hacker who accessed highly personal data and photographs from the networks of major organisations including Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital will be sentenced today.
Matthew Anderson, 33, was a key member of an international gang who abused hs skills as a computer security expert to target businesses and individuals with spam emails containing hidden viruses.
IT experts at Oxford University, where the John Radcliffe’s computer was based, passed on information to police after monitoring the suspicious activity they detected on their network.
The scam, ran from his mother’s front room, also targeted Macmillan publishers and car firm Toyota in what prosecutor Hugh Davies described yesterday as a “fundamental breach of security”.
Anderson, a father-of-five from Banffshire, Scotland, also saved CVs, wills and confidential medical records relating to a seven-year-old boy with autism on his computer.
He will be sentenced at Southwark Crown Court in central London.
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