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20 November 2014

Mobile Phone Forensics Company Hacked

From Alan Turnbull, http://www.secret-bases.co.uk

Mobile Phone Forensics company hacked.

Forensic Telecommunications Services Limited (FTS,
http://www.forensicts.co.uk and http://www.ixam-forensics.com) promotes
itself as a worldwide centre of expertise in forensic data recovery from
mobile phones in the support of investigations into serious organised crime,
murder and terrorism conspiracies. Mobile phone cell site analysis is also a
key service.

FTS operates out of a secretive laboratory - known only by a PO Box number -
near the village of Kemsing, close to Sevenoaks, Kent, south east of London.

It has employed former senior detectives from UK police forces as
investigators.

It is headed by a former UK Government advisor Jonathan Seager Clark, MBE.

FTS and indeed Clark himself are prone to scandal.

http://www.sevenoakschronicle.co.uk/Court-frees-bodybuilder-bank-card-
misused/story-13872415-detail/story.html

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-474788/Police-terror-alert-theft-
secret-records-database.html

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2011/2892.html

In August 2013, HMRC tax inspectors petitioned at the High Court to wind-up
the company under insolvency legislation.

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-60591-1879028

However, this was dismissed by the Court in November 2013.

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-60679-1933568

It is unclear whether FTS is still trading. Currently, it is listed as "active" at Companies House.

Its registered address was switched to an industrial park in Sheffield in
September 2012. Shortly after that, two directors resigned.

It will be further unwelcome news that the FTS website has been hacked by
scammers involved in selling fake designer goods.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Aforensicts.co.uk

http://www.forensicts.co.uk/Test1.aspx

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Aforensicts.co.uk+inurl%3A
fckeditor

http://www.forensicts.co.uk/FCKeditor/NewTool/vivienne-westwood-
gowns-ocqiw.html

http://www.forensicts.co.uk/FCKeditor/NewTool/wwwviviennewestwoodcom-
online-ocqiw.html

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Aforensicts.co.uk+inurl%3A
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