» [UPDATE] Edison arrested by the police -- Niebezpiecznik.pl --

Edison, an Internet user who downloaded recordings of conversations between Tauron's clients and consultants, was detained by the police yesterday. Investigation is underway on Art. 191 of the Penal Code ("using a threat to force a specific action, which is punishable by imprisonment of up to 3 years")

What happened?

We have described Edison's version of events related to the leak of Tauron's customer data in this article. In short, Edison was outraged that Tauron ignored his reports of lack of customer data security and claimed that:

The arrest was made by policemen from Lesser Poland fighting cybercrime, to whom Tauron reported the case on July 30. In the press release sent to our editorial office, the police said that Edison is 37 years old and a resident of Wielkopolska (in one of the conversations he claimed to be from Piła and that he had given Tauron his address and personal data).

The police note also confirms that Edison demanded 10,000 zlotys from Tauron. Edison himself admitted this in a letter to the editors of Niebezpiecznik, adding that he "was full of vodka" and mentioned the ransom, first in the amount of PLN 200 and then PLN 10,000, to "force the company to treat his report more seriously".

As we read in the police press release:

The police also sent us a video of the arrest:

We'll be following this interesting character and if we learn anything new, we'll let you know. As you can see, the possible charges will be for blackmail (demanding a ransom). According to the people we talked to, it will be difficult for him to pin something from the so-called. "computer law" (unauthorized access to data, breach of security, etc.) if the server made data available to anyone and was not secured ...

Update 6.08.2021, 21:24TAURON sent us an additional statement, which shows that Edison was supposed to demand money at the "first" contact with the company. The company also denies having access to Edison's details other than his phone number.

In a letter to us, Edison claimed that he first chatted with a consultant, then called and, after mocking him, sent an email. The prosecutor will probably have some work to do to establish the course of events ...

And finally, one more note. Or rather, praise for Tauron, who, very rarely, keeps us (and customers) informed about the incident as promised. This is what it should look like.

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