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Accused pinched them from employer, sold them on eBay, prosecutors claim Gareth Corfield Thu 14 Jan 2021 // 10:16 UTC Share Copy A 23-year-old Gloucester IT worker is to stand trial after allegedly stealing more than £30,000 worth of Amazon vouchers before selling them on eBay. Jack Walden, of Cranham Close, Abbeymead, appeared before Cheltenham magistrates on 6 January facing three charges: two of fraud and one under the Computer Misuse Act. Gloucestershire News Servic...

5 Min Read NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Uganda’s ban on social media days before presidential elections shows a rattled president flexing power over the Internet at the expense of free speech and citizen rights, digital campaigners said on Wednesday. Tuesday’s ban by President Yoweri Museveni - who said he only acted because Facebook had removed accounts that backed his National Resistance Movement (NRM) party - came two days before elections that opponents hope will end his 35 ye...

Customers in the queue at the MTN shop Lugogo, Kampala, UGANDA, May 2020. Photo by Jacqueline Banya / ILO-Kampala via Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Last year in March, the Ugandan government joined the world’s fight against COVID-19 with strict measures and restrictions to control its spread throughout the country. As citizens turned to the internet as a lifeline to access critical news about coronavirus regulations, exchange opinions, and share local information, the government activated several d...

The WeLeakInfo domain was seized by police in January. (Source: U.S. Justice Department) Britains National Crime Agency says 21 individuals have been arrested on suspicion of purchasing personally identifiable information from the WeLeakInfo website. Authorities say the site provided access to more than 12 billion personal records culled from 10,000 data breaches. The arrests, which took place over a five-week period starting in November, are part of an ongoing investigation that stems from the...

“Of those 21 arrested – all men aged between 18-38 – nine were detained on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences, nine for Fraud offences and three are under investigation for both,” said the agency. Some £41,000 (US$55,000) worth of bitcoin was seized. In addition, the police visited another 69 people who had bought stolen personal information on WeLeakInfo to warn them against using the data. Many more such personal warnings are due to be dispensed over the coming months, said t...

Top Story December 26, 2020 LONDON: Twenty-one arrests have been made across the UK as part of an operation into an online marketplace that advertised stolen personal details, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said. Those targeted were UK-based customers of WeLeakInfo, a criminal website that hosted 12 billion stolen credentials from more than 10,000 data breaches, according to the NCA. The website was taken down in January 2020 following an investigation by the agency. It said cyber criminals p...

UK police have arrested 21 people and warned another 69 individuals in a crackdown on cyber crime, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Friday.

Daily Monitor Wednesday December 23 2020 Summary Advertisement The Government of Uganda has responded to United States Congressman Eliot Engels allegations of Human Rights violations and attack on the Independence of the media, denying them and offering explanations that may help understand what the accusers might have got wrong. On December 9, 2020, Congressman Engel, the chairperson of the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs wrote to the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the Secreta...

A CPS lawyer has been found guilty of using his work computer system to look up his ex-wifes new partner after a break-up that made Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor look like they got on well. Scott Ainge, 48, was today cleared of stalking his deputy district judge wife following an affair, but was convicted of three computer misuse offences after using the CPS system to see if her new partner, Andrew Thompson, had any convictions. A trial at Liverpool Crown Court heard Kate Ainge had reveal...

Solicitor cleared of stalking deputy district judge wife after affair – but convicted of computer misuse offences A keyboard A CPS solicitor has been cleared of stalking his deputy district judge wife after she had an affair, but was convicted of three computer misuse offences. Scott Ainge, 48, of Camellia Drive, Leyland, was found not guilty of stalking Kate Ainge, 41, who he is now divorced from, at Liverpool Crown Court on Friday. The lawyer, who specialised in domestic violence c...