Monday, May 19, 2025
HomeCyber AttackEx-Employee Sentenced 10 Months Jail for Hacking JET2 Flights Network

Ex-Employee Sentenced 10 Months Jail for Hacking JET2 Flights Network

Published on

SIEM as a Service

Follow Us on Google News

A Former Jet2 employee sentenced a 10 month in Prison for carrying the cyber attack on the company network and take down their system for 12 hours.

A former Jet2 employee sentenced a 10 month in Prison for carrying the cyber attack on the company network, and take down their system for 12 hours.

Scott Burns, 27-year-old was employed by ICT provider, Blue Chip, and worked on their Jet2 account until December 2017 and he moved to another company.

- Advertisement - Google News

On 18 January 2019, He was gained access to the Jet2 networks computer account and removed a folder that stored all user account details which cause more than 2000 employees to account in unaccessible.

He also deletes the program used by the company to log the user’s activities and changes on the network.

Scott got arrested on 8 February 2018 and seized several electronic devices and the forensic evidence proves that he was also responsible for another network intrusion against Jet2 on 3 January.

According to National Crime Agency report, On a number of occasions – once on the 3rd of January, during his preparation – and then several times after the attack, Burns also hacked the email inbox of Jet2’s CEO.

“During the interview, Burns admitted that he had illegally accessed the CEO’s inbox “once or twice” to see if anything was being said about the incident – or to see if the company had any evidence of his involvement in the attacks.”

 Last Week, Burns pleaded guilty to eight offenses under the Computer Misuse Act in November and he was sentenced to 10 months in prison at Leeds Crown court.

According to Jamie Horncastle from the NCA said: “Network intrusion is not a victimless crime. Not only did Burns’s actions have a potential financial impact on Jet2, but it also caused huge disruption to their staff and technical operations.”

Also Read: 5 Steps How To Protect Your Company Infrastructure From Insider Threats

Balaji
Balaji
BALAJI is an Ex-Security Researcher (Threat Research Labs) at Comodo Cybersecurity. Editor-in-Chief & Co-Founder - Cyber Security News & GBHackers On Security.

Latest articles

Hackers Exploit RVTools to Deploy Bumblebee Malware on Windows Systems

A reliable VMware environment reporting tool, RVTools, was momentarily infiltrated earlier this week on...

Confluence Servers Under Attack: Hackers Leverage Vulnerability for RDP Access and Remote Code Execution

Threat actors exploited a known vulnerability, CVE-2023-22527, a template injection flaw in Atlassian Confluence...

New ModiLoader Malware Campaign Targets Windows PCs, Harvesting User Credentials

AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC) has recently uncovered a malicious campaign distributing ModiLoader (also...

Health Care Data Breach Costs BreachForums Admin $700,000 Fine

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the 22-year-old former administrator of cybercrime forum Breachforums, will forfeit approximately...

Resilience at Scale

Why Application Security is Non-Negotiable

The resilience of your digital infrastructure directly impacts your ability to scale. And yet, application security remains a critical weak link for most organizations.

Application Security is no longer just a defensive play—it’s the cornerstone of cyber resilience and sustainable growth. In this webinar, Karthik Krishnamoorthy (CTO of Indusface) and Phani Deepak Akella (VP of Marketing – Indusface), will share how AI-powered application security can help organizations build resilience by

Discussion points


Protecting at internet scale using AI and behavioral-based DDoS & bot mitigation.
Autonomously discovering external assets and remediating vulnerabilities within 72 hours, enabling secure, confident scaling.
Ensuring 100% application availability through platforms architected for failure resilience.
Eliminating silos with real-time correlation between attack surface and active threats for rapid, accurate mitigation

More like this

Confluence Servers Under Attack: Hackers Leverage Vulnerability for RDP Access and Remote Code Execution

Threat actors exploited a known vulnerability, CVE-2023-22527, a template injection flaw in Atlassian Confluence...

Health Care Data Breach Costs BreachForums Admin $700,000 Fine

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the 22-year-old former administrator of cybercrime forum Breachforums, will forfeit approximately...

Critical WordPress Plugin Flaw Puts Over 10,000 Sites of Cyberattack

A serious security flaw affecting the Eventin plugin, a popular event management solution for...