Philip Campbell Smith - Revision history

Tom Griffin: /* External Resources */

2014-10-11T15:02:02Z

External Resources

Tom Griffin: /* Computer hacking */

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Computer hacking

Tom Griffin: /* Computer hacking */

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Computer hacking

Melissa Jones: /* Conviction */

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Conviction

Tom Griffin: /* Conviction */

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Conviction

Tom Griffin: /* Elite Maritime Protection Services */

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Elite Maritime Protection Services

Tom Griffin: /* Arrest */

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Arrest

Tom Griffin: /* Computer hacking */

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Computer hacking

Tom Griffin: /* Computer hacking */

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Computer hacking

Tom Griffin: /* Brookmans International */

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Brookmans International

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 *Mark Hughes, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/mark-hughes/9095733/Convicted-blagger-allegedly-hacked-emails-for-News-of-the-World.html Convicted blagger allegedly hacked emails for News of the World], ''The Telegraph'', 21 February 2012.
 *Cahal Milmo, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/court-told-of-murky-world-of-blagger-at-heart-of-computerhacking-allegations-7440665.html Court told of murky world of blagger at heart of computer-hacking allegations], ''Independent'', 25 February 2012.
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 Smith was arrested and his computer seized in 2009.<ref name="DoddDavies">Vikram Dodd and Nick Davies, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/20/news-world-hacking-suspect-conspiracy Man convicted in conspiracy case also accused of hacking computer for NoW], ''The Guardian'', 20 February 2012.</ref>
-At a meeting with [[SOCA]] detectives in May 2011,[[Ian Hurst]] claimed that [[Philip Campbell Smith]] had cultivated contacts with [[Special Branch]] officers.<ref>Robert Verkaik and Abul Taher, [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415214/Leveson-hackers-Whistleblower-police-collusion-intelligence-officer-warned-crime-squad-blagging-ignored.html Leveson witness was ignored when he blew the whistle on police collusion with hackers while intelligence officer also warned crime squad about blue-chip firms using blagging], MailOnline, 8 September 2013.</ref>
+At a meeting with [[SOCA]] detectives in May 2011, [[Ian Hurst]] claimed that Smith had cultivated contacts with [[Special Branch]] officers.<ref>Robert Verkaik and Abul Taher, [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415214/Leveson-hackers-Whistleblower-police-collusion-intelligence-officer-warned-crime-squad-blagging-ignored.html Leveson witness was ignored when he blew the whistle on police collusion with hackers while intelligence officer also warned crime squad about blue-chip firms using blagging], MailOnline, 8 September 2013.</ref>
 ==Elite Maritime Protection Services==

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	Smith was arrested and his computer seized in 2009.<ref name="DoddDavies">Vikram Dodd and Nick Davies, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/20/news-world-hacking-suspect-conspiracy Man convicted in conspiracy case also accused of hacking computer for NoW], ''The Guardian'', 20 February 2012.</ref>		Smith was arrested and his computer seized in 2009.<ref name="DoddDavies">Vikram Dodd and Nick Davies, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/20/news-world-hacking-suspect-conspiracy Man convicted in conspiracy case also accused of hacking computer for NoW], ''The Guardian'', 20 February 2012.</ref>
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		+	At a meeting with [[SOCA]] detectives in May 2011,[[Ian Hurst]] claimed that [[Philip Campbell Smith]] had cultivated contacts with [[Special Branch]] officers.<ref>Robert Verkaik and Abul Taher, [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415214/Leveson-hackers-Whistleblower-police-collusion-intelligence-officer-warned-crime-squad-blagging-ignored.html Leveson witness was ignored when he blew the whistle on police collusion with hackers while intelligence officer also warned crime squad about blue-chip firms using blagging], MailOnline, 8 September 2013.</ref>

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 ==Conviction==
-Campbell Smith was one of four private investigators convicted and sentenced in February 2012 forcommitting fraud by false representation, under offences which were introduced in the 2006 Fraud Act. [[SOCA]] Director General [[Trevor Pearce]] later stated:
+Campbell Smith was one of four private investigators convicted and sentenced in February 2012 for committing fraud by false representation, under offences which were introduced in the 2006 Fraud Act. [[SOCA]] Director General [[Trevor Pearce]] later stated:
-::Philip Campbell Smith, Adam Spears and Graham Freeman used the services of Daniel Summers, an expert in a technique known as blagging, to acquire personal and financial information on behalf of corporate clients and private individuals. SOCA's investigation into the four men began when it received intelligence that Summers' computer may have had information about criminal activity stored on it. When Summers put his computer up for sale, an undercover SOCA officer succeeded in buying it from him for £590 cash. Following the seizure of a number of computers, SOCA's forensic analysts retrieved files showing that Philip Campbell Smith, Adam Speers and Graham Freeman has been tasking a fourth person, Daniel Summers, to obtain confidential information for payment.<ref>[Letter from Trevor Pearce QPM, Director General, Serious Organised Crime Agency, to the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee], 2 July 2013.</ref>
+::Philip Campbell Smith, Adam Spears and Graham Freeman used the services of [[Daniel Summers]], an expert in a technique known as blagging, to acquire personal and financial information on behalf of corporate clients and private individuals. SOCA's investigation into the four men began when it received intelligence that Summers' computer may have had information about criminal activity stored on it. When Summers put his computer up for sale, an undercover SOCA officer succeeded in buying it from him for £590 cash. Following the seizure of a number of computers, SOCA's forensic analysts retrieved files showing that Philip Campbell Smith, Adam Speers and Graham Freeman has been tasking a fourth person, Daniel Summers, to obtain confidential information for payment.<ref>[Letter from Trevor Pearce QPM, Director General, Serious Organised Crime Agency, to the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee], 2 July 2013.</ref>
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 Campbell Smith was one of four private investigators convicted and sentenced in February 2012 forcommitting fraud by false representation, under offences which were introduced in the 2006 Fraud Act. [[SOCA]] Director General [[Trevor Pearce]] later stated:
-Philip Campbell Smith, Adam Spears and Graham Freeman used the services of Daniel Summers, an expert in a technique known as blagging, to acquire personal and financial information on behalf of corporate clients and private individuals. SOCA's investigation into the four men began when it received intelligence that Summers' computer may have had information about criminal activity stored on it. When Summers put his computer up for sale, an undercover SOCA officer succeeded in buying it from him for £590 cash. Following the seizure of a number of computers, SOCA's forensic analysts retrieved files showing that Philip Campbell Smith, Adam Speers and Graham Freeman has been tasking a fourth person, Daniel Summers, to obtain confidential information for payment.<ref>[Letter from Trevor Pearce QPM, Director General, Serious Organised Crime Agency, to the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee], 2 July 2013.</ref>
+::Philip Campbell Smith, Adam Spears and Graham Freeman used the services of Daniel Summers, an expert in a technique known as blagging, to acquire personal and financial information on behalf of corporate clients and private individuals. SOCA's investigation into the four men began when it received intelligence that Summers' computer may have had information about criminal activity stored on it. When Summers put his computer up for sale, an undercover SOCA officer succeeded in buying it from him for £590 cash. Following the seizure of a number of computers, SOCA's forensic analysts retrieved files showing that Philip Campbell Smith, Adam Speers and Graham Freeman has been tasking a fourth person, Daniel Summers, to obtain confidential information for payment.<ref>[Letter from Trevor Pearce QPM, Director General, Serious Organised Crime Agency, to the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee], 2 July 2013.</ref>
 ==Publications==

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	As of July 2011, Smith was no longer listed on the company's site.<ref>[http://www.elitemaritimeprotection.com/who-are-we.php Who We Are], Elite Maritime Protection Services, 19 July 2011.</ref>		As of July 2011, Smith was no longer listed on the company's site.<ref>[http://www.elitemaritimeprotection.com/who-are-we.php Who We Are], Elite Maritime Protection Services, 19 July 2011.</ref>
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		+	==Conviction==
		+	Campbell Smith was one of four private investigators convicted and sentenced in February 2012 forcommitting fraud by false representation, under offences which were introduced in the 2006 Fraud Act. [[SOCA]] Director General [[Trevor Pearce]] later stated:
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		+	Philip Campbell Smith, Adam Spears and Graham Freeman used the services of Daniel Summers, an expert in a technique known as blagging, to acquire personal and financial information on behalf of corporate clients and private individuals. SOCA's investigation into the four men began when it received intelligence that Summers' computer may have had information about criminal activity stored on it. When Summers put his computer up for sale, an undercover SOCA officer succeeded in buying it from him for £590 cash. Following the seizure of a number of computers, SOCA's forensic analysts retrieved files showing that Philip Campbell Smith, Adam Speers and Graham Freeman has been tasking a fourth person, Daniel Summers, to obtain confidential information for payment.<ref>[Letter from Trevor Pearce QPM, Director General, Serious Organised Crime Agency, to the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee], 2 July 2013.</ref>

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	::She added that the charge related to the sending of an e-mail about a former soldier to a national Sunday newspaper.<ref>Rosie Cowan, MAN TO FACE COURT ON WITNESS INTIMIDATION CHARGE, Press Association, 19 November 2000.</ref>		::She added that the charge related to the sending of an e-mail about a former soldier to a national Sunday newspaper.<ref>Rosie Cowan, MAN TO FACE COURT ON WITNESS INTIMIDATION CHARGE, Press Association, 19 November 2000.</ref>
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		+	According to Smith, the case was dropped by the Director of Public Prosecutions for lack of evidence.<ref>Email for Philip Campbell Smith to SpinWatch, 8 December 2009.</ref>

	==Brookmans International==		==Brookmans International==

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	Hurst later confronted Smith and taped him apparently admitting to the hacking.<ref name="DoddDavies">Vikram Dodd and Nick Davies, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/20/news-world-hacking-suspect-conspiracy Man convicted in conspiracy case also accused of hacking computer for NoW], ''The Guardian'', 20 February 2012.</ref>		Hurst later confronted Smith and taped him apparently admitting to the hacking.<ref name="DoddDavies">Vikram Dodd and Nick Davies, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/20/news-world-hacking-suspect-conspiracy Man convicted in conspiracy case also accused of hacking computer for NoW], ''The Guardian'', 20 February 2012.</ref>
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		+	Smith was arrested and his computer seized in 2009.<ref name="DoddDavies">Vikram Dodd and Nick Davies, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/20/news-world-hacking-suspect-conspiracy Man convicted in conspiracy case also accused of hacking computer for NoW], ''The Guardian'', 20 February 2012.</ref>

	==Elite Maritime Protection Services==		==Elite Maritime Protection Services==

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-Smith is alleged to hacked into [[Ian Hurst]]'s computer in 2006 as part of a commission from the ''[[News of the World]]''.<ref name="DoddDavies">Vikram Dodd and Nick Davies, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/20/news-world-hacking-suspect-conspiracy Man convicted in conspiracy case also accused of hacking computer for NoW], ''The Guardian'', 20 February 2012.</ref>
+Smith allegedly hacked into [[Ian Hurst]]'s computer in July 2006 by sending him a trojan virus which relayed his emails. The hack is alleged to have been commissioned by [[Alex Marunchak]], then a senior editor at the ''[[News of the World]]'' under [[Andy Coulson]], and subcontracted to Smith through [[Southern Investigations]], the company run by [[Jonathan Rees]]. The material reportedly accessed included information on the whereabouts of informants [[Kevin Fulton]] and [[Freddie Scappaticci]].<ref name="DoddDavies">Vikram Dodd and Nick Davies, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/20/news-world-hacking-suspect-conspiracy Man convicted in conspiracy case also accused of hacking computer for NoW], ''The Guardian'', 20 February 2012.</ref>
 ==Elite Maritime Protection Services==

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	::He agreed: "Security doesn't come cheap these days."<ref>SECURITY FIRM TO PROTECT 'DEVASTATED' KERRY KATONA, Northampton Chronicle and Echo, 20 July 2007.</ref>		::He agreed: "Security doesn't come cheap these days."<ref>SECURITY FIRM TO PROTECT 'DEVASTATED' KERRY KATONA, Northampton Chronicle and Echo, 20 July 2007.</ref>
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		+	==Computer hacking==
		+	Smith is alleged to hacked into [[Ian Hurst]]'s computer in 2006 as part of a commission from the ''[[News of the World]]''.<ref name="DoddDavies">Vikram Dodd and Nick Davies, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/20/news-world-hacking-suspect-conspiracy Man convicted in conspiracy case also accused of hacking computer for NoW], ''The Guardian'', 20 February 2012.</ref>

	==Elite Maritime Protection Services==		==Elite Maritime Protection Services==