telling the police about technology crime is a waste of time, they just don’t get it. it’s like the serious fraud office, if they don’t understand the offence, they’re never going to catch the crims.
WRT the insurance claim though
The magazine’s insurance service escaped having to payout too, noting a contract clause that stated ‘physical signs of violent entry must be found to claim against property destruction.’
Surely all the hackers deliberate keyboard actions are physical signs of violence. There is intent to destroy.
An extreme case analogy would be the person who presses the nuclear button is commiting a violent act by simple pressing a button.
a sign of violence could be taken as forcing entry. if you leave a door open, you invlidate any insurance claims. STW effectievly did this by failing to address a known weakness in sql, allowing an “sql injection attack” – clue, I suported sql servers 6 years ago, and those servers were protected against this sort of attack then. so, arguably, the hackers tried the door and found it was open.