Hacker Took Over BBC Server, Tried To Sell Access On Christmas Day

An anonymous reader writes in with this story about a hacker that took over a BBC server during the Christmas holiday. "A hacker secretly took over a computer server at the BBC, Britain's public broadcaster, and then launched a Christmas Day campaign to convince other cyber criminals to pay him for access to the system. While it is not known if the hacker found any buyers, the BBC's security team responded to the issue on Saturday and believes it has secured the site, according to a person familiar with the cleanup effort. A BBC spokesman declined to discuss the incident. 'We do not comment on security issues,' he said."

Actually it was Torchwood

[Anonymous Coward]

But the Doctor fixed it!

Re:It would work

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, perhaps some cyber criminal could have written and uploaded a decent script for it!

Christmas Invasion

[Jeff Flanagan]

The BBC has plenty of experience with Christmas invasions. I expect a police-box was involved in dealing with the problem.