Un hacker causa el caos en una cárcel inglesa tras asignarle

Un hacker causa el caos en una cárcel inglesa tras asignarle la programación
Un hacker preso al frente de los sistemas de la cárcel es tan peligroso como un mono con una pistola. Los responsables de la prisión inglesa de Ranby debieron de pensar que Douglas Harvard, que cumple 5 años de condena por estafar 6,5 milllones de libras clonando tarjetas de crédito, era el más adecuado para programar los sistemas de la cárcel. Poco después su compañero de celda se hacía con la llave maestra de la cárcel.

Jail chaos as lag hacker is left in charge of computer system

A jailed hacker shut down a prison's entire computer system - after bosses gave him the job of programming it.

Douglas Havard, 27, serving six years for stealing up to £6.5million using forged credit cards over the internet, was approached after governors wanted to create an internal TV station but needed a special computer program written.

He was left unguarded and hacked into the system's hard drive at Ranby Prison, near Retford, Notts. Then he set up a series of passwords so no one else could get into the system.

The blunder emerged a week after the Sunday Mirror revealed how an inmate at the same jail managed to get a key cut that opened every door.

Havard was put in segregation as punishment. But he left the system crippled. A prison source said: "It's unbelievable that a criminal convicted of cyber-crime was allowed uncontrolled access to the hard drive. He set up such an elaborate array of passwords it took a specialist company to get it working."

A Prison Service spokesman said the breach was being investigated, adding: "Prisoners are not allowed unsupervised access to computers. The prisoner was not able to access records of any other prisoners."