My local dealer knows these guys, uses their sevices, and from what he knows all is not as it seems.
He has said that much of it is blown out of proportion and in fact the guy prosecuting used to work with him!
Just shows you can't pick your friends.
But the dealer is well happy with them and sells a load of bikes via their services.
I trust him more than i trust the press!
Motorcycle Trade magazine victim of computer hacking
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Blown out of proportion? 
I think you'll find that the Crown Prosecution Service did the prosecuting, the Metropolitan Police did the investigation, and given that Motorcycle Trader's website is a news and trade directory, it strikes me as more than coincidental that after downloading commercially sensitive information from the trade directory, that NXGN promptly launched a rival service. Even the judge said during sentencing that this was motivated by commercial rivalry. Tell me that isn't a despicable way of doing business.
The "guy prosecuting", as you refer to him, did indeed work at one time for NXGN, having created a great deal of the DealerNET product over the five years he worked there. He left 18 months or so prior to the hack, and was quite happy minding his own business, until Mark Hopkins decided, "to destroy his life". Mark Hopkins then proceeded to hack into a rival's computer system, and let's not forget this wasn't a quick hack, it took pretty much from 10 am till 5pm, and it only stopped when the web consultants involved deliberately crashed the system to minimise the damage done.
As for picking your friends, are you suggesting the prosecution was done out of spite? This isn't some poxy little charge, it's a criminal offence, for which he got handed out 5 months! Picking your friends, huh? You're right you know, because I wouldn't have expected someone thought to be a friend to have done something like that. Picking your friends, indeed.
Trust your dealer by all means, but I have a feeling your dealer has gulped down a truck load of spin from NXGN.
Do you really think Mark Hopkins would have put his hands up to it in court, and coughed up nigh on ten grand, if he wasn't guilty? Don't make me laugh.
I think you'll find that the Crown Prosecution Service did the prosecuting, the Metropolitan Police did the investigation, and given that Motorcycle Trader's website is a news and trade directory, it strikes me as more than coincidental that after downloading commercially sensitive information from the trade directory, that NXGN promptly launched a rival service. Even the judge said during sentencing that this was motivated by commercial rivalry. Tell me that isn't a despicable way of doing business.
The "guy prosecuting", as you refer to him, did indeed work at one time for NXGN, having created a great deal of the DealerNET product over the five years he worked there. He left 18 months or so prior to the hack, and was quite happy minding his own business, until Mark Hopkins decided, "to destroy his life". Mark Hopkins then proceeded to hack into a rival's computer system, and let's not forget this wasn't a quick hack, it took pretty much from 10 am till 5pm, and it only stopped when the web consultants involved deliberately crashed the system to minimise the damage done.
As for picking your friends, are you suggesting the prosecution was done out of spite? This isn't some poxy little charge, it's a criminal offence, for which he got handed out 5 months! Picking your friends, huh? You're right you know, because I wouldn't have expected someone thought to be a friend to have done something like that. Picking your friends, indeed.
Trust your dealer by all means, but I have a feeling your dealer has gulped down a truck load of spin from NXGN.
Do you really think Mark Hopkins would have put his hands up to it in court, and coughed up nigh on ten grand, if he wasn't guilty? Don't make me laugh.
