Re: Met police cybercrime unit ?
(AC above). I agree that the NCA (or City of London Police) wouldn't have been involved, and it would have been done at a very local level. But does the Met have cybercrime specialists at the local level?
Isn't it more likely that, as Hutchinson himself said "it doesn't add up", and that the initial inspection of the website logs was more along the lines of someone from the CBS saying to a Met officer "look, this IP address accessed the documents. You need to arrest them." Then, after his arrest, and him saying "I just googled them and downloaded it" the officer went back to the CBS, who shuffled their feet and finally admitted "Ah. We did reorganise the website a few months ago for... reasons. I suppose it's possible that they were publicly accessible for a bit from the old location..."
Officer rolls eyes, makes sharp remark about wasting their time, case closed, move along nothing to see here.
Which then begs the question, what did the CBS say to persuade the Met to take the case up in the first place? "Man reads meeting minutes" is hardly the crime of the century is it?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
