Prince Charles Email hacked

[mleanz1]

I'm doing a law essay on the computer misuse act. I'm looking for high profile hacking cases before the act. I seem to remember that either Prince Charles or maybe Philip had their email hacked before the computer misuse act. From what i remember they tried to do the people for criminal damage to his hard drive. I however can't find anywhere on the web that actually says what happened. Does anyone kniow any where where i can find it. Or what actually happened??

 

[spitzoid]

If teh internetz says it didn't happen, it didn't happen.

 

[apatia77]

He must have watched too much porn on the internet to get his pc infected

 

[998cc]

I dont remember Prince Charles's being hacked, but i remember Sarah Palins was.

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1842097,00.html

 

[mleanz1]

I dont remember Prince Charles's being hacked, but i remember Sarah Palins was.

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1842097,00.html

Cheers for the link and it was a long time ago sometime in the late 80's.

 

[Burnsy2023]

Prince Charles had email in the 80's? You sure?

 

[Josh107]

He wasn't even born in the 80's according to his profile. Must mean the 90's, I remember something like this too, but I don't think it was their emails that got hacked, was something to do with someone taking a nosy on charles computer and borrowing some files iirc?

 

[mleanz1]

Pretty sure however the more i look and cant find it the more i think that maybe i imaged it. From what i remeber though due to the fact that there was no computer misuse act they really struggled to find something to prosecute them with. They tried things like forgery and theft of electricity on the server. Thats why i can remember it as i was thought it was crazy at the time. If i remember correctly it was in a book or magazine though.
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Thats where i read it

 

[russ0r]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Misuse_Act#R_v_Gold_.26_Schifreen

Someone gained access to Prince Philip's 'Prestel' messagebox, which prompted the passing of the Computer Misuse Act.

 

[mleanz1]

Cheers as i said i wasn't sure if it was Charles or Philip.

 

[Weebull]

He wasn't even born in the 80's according to his profile.

Um.

 

[apeZ]

He wasn't even born in the 80's according to his profile.

Poor guy needs to buy anti-ageing cream then, I guess.

 

[leaskovski]

Cheers for the link and it was a long time ago sometime in the late 80's.

lol, facepalm.

Edit:

lol, facepalm at me.... I had never even heard of Prestel and its email similarities.

 

[mleanz1]

I had never even heard of Prestel and its email similarities.

lol never had I!!

 

[djohn]

He wasn't even born in the 80's according to his profile. Must mean the 90's, I remember something like this too, but I don't think it was their emails that got hacked, was something to do with someone taking a nosy on charles computer and borrowing some files iirc?

Think he was born in the mid 50's and he's round the 60 years of age mark now.