The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit had their domain snatched from under them, a German by the name of Uwe Matt managed to purchase the website from RegisterCompass.com.
The domain was not hosting a site as the NHTCU was transferred to the Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) in April 2006, so any traffic to that domain was redirected to the SOCU site.
It’s been said that it was “Sloppy” to let this slip under the radar, as obviously someone was not paying attention to the registration expirery and ignored the renewal letter.
As a lot of well known sites link to this page such as the Home office crime reduction website as well as the BBC it could have been easily open for abuse. The new site owner could have had bad intentions such as malware or even mimicking a NHTCU site to acquire people’s personal details, which could have been a very large and additional embarrassment to the people publicising the risks of identity theft.
The domain now hosts a notice from the new owner asking for suggestions about how it might be best used.
Sep 10
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