A British man has been arrested in connection with the theft of
source code from Cisco, according to reports. The code, which was
stolen from the internet networking company in May, was briefly
released onto the internet.
The security breach was discovered in May, when Russian web site
SecurityLab.ru reported that it had received some of Cisco's source
code from hackers.
Reports at the time suggested that as much as 800MB of code may
have been stolen, although Cisco made no comment on this, other
than to tell internetnews.com that, "Based on preliminary data, we
don't believe any confidential customer information or financial
systems were affected".
Scotland Yard spokeswoman Julie Prinsep confirmed on Friday that
the Metropolitan Police Computer Crime Unit had arrested an unnamed
man on 3rd September under suspicion of violating the UK's
anti-hacking law, the Computer Misuse Act. He has now been released
on bail.
