Denis O’Brien (top) and Clockwise from top left: Karl Brophy, Vincent Crowley, Maeve Sheehan, Joe Webb, Brendan O’Connor, James Osborne, Jerry Healy SC, Donal Buggy, Jacqueline O’Brien SC, Rory Godson, Mandy Scott, Sam Smyth
Gavin Daly, in The Sunday Times, reported that an Isle of Man company controlled by Denis O’Brien – Independent News and Media’s largest shareholder – paid the bill for an IT firm called Trusted Data Solutions to gain access to INM’s computer network in 2014 without the board’s knowledge.
Mr Daly further reported that TDS accessed the email accounts of 19 current and former INM employees, including four journalists.
Further to this…
This morning.
The Irish Independent named 12 of the 19.
They are:
Karl Brophy – CEO of Red Flag and former director of corporate affairs at INM.
Vincent Crowley – former CEO of INM.
Maeve Sheehan – Sunday Independent journalist.
Joe Webb – former head of INM’s Irish operations.
Brendan O’Connor – Sunday Independent deputy editor and RTE broadcaster.
James Osborne – former INM chairman (now deceased).
Jerry Healy SC – a senior counsel at the Moriarty Tribunal, for the tribunal.
Donal Buggy – former chief financial officer at INM.
Jacqueline O’Brien SC – a senior counsel at the Moriarty Tribunal, for the tribunal.
Rory Godson – Former Sunday Tribune journalist, Sunday Times business editor and former director of corporate affairs at Goldman Sachs (Europe, the Middle East and Africa).
Mandy Scott – Former executive personal assistant to Karl Brophy and Gavin O’Reilly – when he was CEO – at INM. Ms Scott is now executive manager at Red Flag.
Sam Smyth – Former journalist at Sunday Tribune and Irish Independent. Mr Smyth covered the Moriarty Tribunal. According to Mr O’Reilly, during the final stages of the tribunal in 2010, Leslie Buckley telephoned Mr O’Reilly telling him that Denis O’Brien “very upset with Sam Smyth” and wondered if there was some way that Mr O’Reilly could take Mr Smyth off the story.
Sunday: Life’s A Breach
Meanwhile…
INM has STILL not contacted people affected by alleged email hacking.
I suspected my name was on the list but I had to call Mandy Scott at 7am this morning to tell her, to astonishment, that her name was in the paper this morning.
INM has had the names since March 23rd. #INM19
— Karl Brophy (@KarlBrophy) April 3, 2018
And, obviously, if what we’re reading is true, the Director of Corporate Enforcement believes that some people, inside and outside INM, have had the names and the emails for three and a half years. #INM19
— Karl Brophy (@KarlBrophy) April 3, 2018
Needless to say, INM and others will be hearing from our lawyers very soon.
I strongly strongly suspect we won’t be the only ones.#INM19
— Karl Brophy (@KarlBrophy) April 3, 2018
Update: Look Hack In Anger
UPDATE:
Former staff members were informed this morning that their emails may have been hacked by having their names printed, with no prior communication from the company, in a story that appeared on the front page of the Irish Independent @RAE_Stephen #INM19https://t.co/8KbsvGrXoB pic.twitter.com/2cIDIuBpw5
— Karl Brophy (@KarlBrophy) April 3, 2018
They should really let CAB have a go at seizing whatever he actually has at this stage
they’ll have to fight the vulture funds for anything, the lad is broke
A bit more serious than someone having information that’s in the public domain saved onto a memory stick, that managed to find its way to Denis O Brien incognito.
USB fairy delivered that right to his desk… the arrogance of it is astounding. I mean to go before a judge and say it just showed up on his desk!
Must be very lax security alright.
Redacted seems like an awful control freak. And paranoid.
Can you spy on people like this legally?
any criminality/illegality is likely to be around corporate law (ie one shareholder getting this information and not all of them) rather than the actual searching of emails etc (INM management probably allowed to do that and use the information as they see fit)
Right.
This man should have no involvement with newspapers & radio stations. How are we supposed to find out about him fleecing the taxpaper, when he owns the news and is so controlling?
Its the spying on the SC who were working for the tribunal that is very serious in my mind.
Who’s going to stop him? @:anne
Exactly.
And Anne Harris is not mentioned in not mentioned the list?
Former editor accuses bosses of stifling coverage of Denis O’Brien </B?
https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/jun/15/former-editor-accuses-bosses-of-stifling-coverage-of-denis-obrien
https://www.thephoenix.ie/article/buggers-at-inm/
I bet Barry Egan and Niamh Horan are ragin'.
Lord Ross also wrote for the Indo. Oooohhhh
loving every minute of this. redacted is like a spider his clout is everywhere.
Who’d be bothered snooping on Brendan O’Connor?
Bet he’s delighted to be on the list. A real credibility boost.
I’d say the thinking behind this was that Brendan O’Connor was in the Anne Harris (O’Reilly) camp.
And, let’s face it, after penning an ode to her derrière, O’Connor could hardly claim to be neutral.
O’Connor’s name was thrown in there to throw them off the Anne Harris scent.
Its outrageous , nasty, underhand and I hope he got naff off for snooping.
CAB won’t touch him. They do what FG says they’re to do.
To my mind these people should now club together & stump up for some proper Russian/Ukrainian/Chinese mercenary expertise to hack the absolute blx out of our friend there & post it all online & end him….I can only imagine what kind of ridiculous nasty paperwork they’d find
Most shocking is realising Brendan O’Connor is the Sunday Independent deputy editor.
And presenter of RTÉ’s Cutting Edge….
RTE got rid of him from that dreadful Saturday night poo; but no probs, fixed him up with another poo show on Wed nights.
if you want to hear about hacking listen to the untold podcast
Redacted seems to fancy himself as the spy who came in from the cold. Let’s not forget his farcical attempt to put a tail on Gavin O’Reilly. ALLEGEDLY!
Stephen Rea should bring back Gemma O’Doherty to get to the bottom of this as he is too busy himself
advising Junker and Co in Europe on “Fake News..incidentally when did the great and the good in know
in INM get wind of all this.
If INM were the Sopranos, Stephen Rea would be Bobby Baccalieri. Capice?