UK - 38 months jail time was handed down to employees and clients of a London private detective agency which illegally hacked into telephone lines.
Eight people connected with the agency, which cannot be named for legal reasons, variously admitted charges of conspiring to intercept communications unlawfully...
...authorities were first made aware of the agency when it was discovered that a serving police officer, who was on sick leave citing depression, was effectively working as a full-time private investigator...
...Green roadside junction boxes had been broken into and hundreds of private lines were compromised. The agency also hacked computer systems to order to access private banking and medical information... (more)
