Hacking fun in the London Stock Exchange

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

from: http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1936157,00.html

Rusal, the Russian aluminium company engaged in a three-way merger
deal that would bring it to the London Stock Exchange, is to face
legal action in Britain over allegations of computer hacking. A high
court claim is being brought by Ansol and its consultant Ashton
Investments. Rusal and Ansol were formerly partners in a joint venture
to supply alumina to TadAZ, a smelter in Tajikistan. The companies are
already locked in another legal fight in London over allegations of
bribery which TadAZ, supported by Rusal, has brought against Ansol.

Ashton alleges that last January it discovered its computer had been
hacked. It claims it traced some of this back to IP addresses
registered to Rusal. Rusal denies its employees accessed Ashton's
computer, adding that its IT department had previously installed wi-fi
access to the web, which can now only be accessed by computers with a
recognised number.

It said the most likely explanation was that third parties had cloned
the numbers by which they could use Rusal's wi-fi access and left the
Rusal IP address on other machines "so that it would appear (falsely)
that it was a Rusal employee who had obtained the unauthorised
access".
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