Police probe personal data theft from 2,300 U.K. computers
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Credit card details and passwords stolen from thousands of computers users in the U.K. have found its way to a computer in the U.S. and British law enforcing agencies are investigating the circumstances that led to the theft of these confidential information and trying to find out the perpetrators.
According to the Metropolitan Police's Computer Crime Unit, which is investigating the incident, data found in the U.S. computer was apparently stolen from more than 2,300 U.K. computers using a virus. The unit said some 83,000 files in the U.K. computers were targeted by the hackers, but there could be more such instances around the world.
Credit card details and passwords stolen from thousands of computers users in the U.K. have found its way to a computer in the U.S. and British law enforcing agencies are investigating the circumstances that led to the theft of these confidential information and trying to find out the perpetrators.According to the Metropolitan Police's Computer Crime Unit, which is investigating the incident, data found in the U.S. computer was apparently stolen from more than 2,300 U.K. computers using a virus. The unit said some 83,000 files in the U.K. computers were targeted by the hackers, but there could be more such instances around the world.
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