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ACS:Law breach prompts ICO warning over data security

...companies have to keep individuals' details private, in the wake of the ACS:Law's inadvertent leaking of thousands of alleged unlawful file-sharers' personal... Read more

29 September, 2010 by Ben Woods

ACS:Law campaign targeted innocents, says ex-worker

...A former employee of ACS:Law, which sent out demands for money to suspected copyright infringers, has... Read more

15 February, 2011 by Ben Woods

ACS:Law moves to drop file-sharing cases

...ACS:Law, the firm that sent thousands of letters to alleged file-sharers... Read more

26 January, 2011 by Nick Hide

Privacy group takes on ACS:Law over porn data breach

...ACS:Law, which has conducted a letter-writing campaign against people suspected of... Read more

27 September, 2010 by David Meyer

Second law firm in trouble over copyright cash demands

...A lawyer from the legal firm ACS:Law has been referred to a disciplinary tribunal over a series of... Read more

24 August, 2010 by David Meyer

Hartlepool student charged over Anonymous attacks

...organisations, including MasterCard, PayPal and Visa; the security company HBGary; and the ACS:Law firm of solicitors. The Metropolitan Police and the FBI, alongside other... Read more

25 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Copyright judge attacks file-sharing case and plaintiffs

...to identify copyright infringers. Since late 2009, MediaCAT used the law firm ACS:Law to send out tens of thousands of letters to people, accusing... Read more

9 February, 2011 by David Meyer

ICO lets BT off the hook over data handling

...BT's broadband subsidiary PlusNet, which sent unencrypted customer details to solicitors ACS:Law as part of an alleged copyright case. The customer data was... Read more

2 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

BT to challenge Ministry of Sound copyright court order

...involved in the fight against online copyright infringement. One such organisation was ACS:Law, a legal firm that is being investigated by the Solicitors Regulation... Read more

5 October, 2010 by David Meyer

DDoS attackers line up new targets

...also been nominated for attack for its role in assisting law firm ACS:Law target UK users who downloaded copyrighted pornographic content. For more on... Read more

29 September, 2010 by Darren Pauli

ICO fines ACS:Law £1,000 for data breach

A UK privacy authority has fined the solicitor behind ACS:Law £1,000 for failing to keep the personal data of... Read more

10 May, 2011

Costs considered as ACS:Law copyright case closes

ACS:Law's disastrous legal action against alleged unlawful file-sharers has finally... Read more

17 March, 2011

ACS:Law fails in default judgement attempt

ACS:Law, a legal firm that sent hundreds of letters to people claiming... Read more

10 December, 2010

BT sent customers' details unencrypted to ACS:Law

...some of its customers in an unencrypted Excel spreadsheet via email to ACS:Law, the ISP admitted on Tuesday. In a thread on BT's... Read more

29 September, 2010

ACS:Law chief still being investigated over letters

...still under investigation over the letters despite the closure of his firm ACS:Law, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has confirmed. The investigation by the Solicitors... Read more

7 February, 2011

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