Denis O’Brien
#inm19
Mark Kenny
Jonathan Neilan
Harriet Mansergh
Jenny Kilroy,
Nick Cooper
Ann Marie Healy
Andrew Donoghue (sic)
Sam Smyth
Brendan O’Connor
Maeve Sheehan
James Osborne
Donal Buggy
Vincent Crowley
Karl Brophy
Joe Webb
Rory Godson
Jerry Healy
Jacqueline O’Brien
Mandy Scott— NAMAwinelake (@namawinelake) April 4, 2018
A short related thread on this INM story. #inm19 1/
— Gavin Sheridan (@gavinsblog) April 4, 2018
A company previously called Another9, now called CTI global, states on its website that one of its clients is INM. pic.twitter.com/remtHh0ihF
— Gavin Sheridan (@gavinsblog) April 4, 2018
What does CTI do? Cloud backups. pic.twitter.com/zfKiNnMRPH
— Gavin Sheridan (@gavinsblog) April 4, 2018
Who is the chairman of CTI according to its website? Leslie Buckley. pic.twitter.com/4UaYGowgCI
— Gavin Sheridan (@gavinsblog) April 4, 2018
Who is the majority shareholder in CTI, according to INM’s own reporting? Denis O’Brien. pic.twitter.com/yioeFHL9J9
— Gavin Sheridan (@gavinsblog) April 4, 2018
Interesting stuff. Also interesting:
Another9 was also contracted by Ervia/Irish Water for cloud backup services. pic.twitter.com/xqGXznzVRn
— Gavin Sheridan (@gavinsblog) April 4, 2018
There was a good deal of controversy at the time around possible future privatisation of Irish Water. And what company got a contract to install water meters – SiteServ (also owned/controlled by Denis O’Brien). There was also controversy around data related to customers.
— Gavin Sheridan (@gavinsblog) April 4, 2018
Of course I’m making no allegation here, merely stating that it is interesting that a cloud backup company is engaged by INM, and that company involves the same principals as the ODCE affidavit.
— Gavin Sheridan (@gavinsblog) April 4, 2018
How do I know about Irish Water / Another 9? pic.twitter.com/3C5Onxpax8
— Gavin Sheridan (@gavinsblog) April 4, 2018
Meanwhile…
And, this morning, more astonishing drip fed revelations on the #INM19.
The emails that the Director of Corporate Enforcement believes were hacked go back to, at least, 1999.
Millions of emails. https://t.co/q48GwTAAvD
— Karl Brophy (@KarlBrophy) April 4, 2018
And there’s further evidence, in this morning’s report, that the FULL back-up tapes were taken out of the company. These contain all the data and emails from:
* everyone who worked at INM over, potentially, decades (at least back to 1999)
* everyone who ever emailed them
— Karl Brophy (@KarlBrophy) April 4, 2018
Still not a word from the company to people seemingly affected by this.
We are, literally, being made buy INM’s own newspapers (or traffic their website) everyday to find out what might have happened to our emails and those of our sources (if we were journalists).
— Karl Brophy (@KarlBrophy) April 4, 2018
One of the people quoted in the paper this morning was so thrilled to get his hands on tens of thousands of emails belong to just one person going back to 1999 that he, allegedly, texted Leslie Buckley:
“Yippee!!”#INM19
— Karl Brophy (@KarlBrophy) April 4, 2018
And, again, IF the entire back-up tapes going back decades were taken (and it seems that the ODCE have evidence they were) then:
This is not about 19 people at all.
It affects hundreds of millions of emails.
And hundreds of thousands of people including thousands of employees
— Karl Brophy (@KarlBrophy) April 4, 2018
We’re in the astonishing situation where, it would appear and according to the reports, the journalists writing about this story over the past week (@DearbhailDibs and @shanephelanindo) had their own emails taken, accessed and interrogated.
— Karl Brophy (@KarlBrophy) April 4, 2018
So the “headline” is not 19 people. That was just the Advanced Query Syntax for Exchange. It’s actually nearly 20 years of emails for a large organisation. 1000s of people, many millions of emails.
So arguably one of the largest data breaches in the history of the State
— Gavin Sheridan (@gavinsblog) April 4, 2018
Previously: Why Did You Have These People Hacked?
Related: Thicker Than Uisce (January 30, 2014)
Contains Impurities (October 9, 2014)
christ on a fupping bike
Yeah. What he said.
REDACTED
A great little country to do business in.
Provided you’re a person that is not to be mentioned.
Their state looks after their mates.
Excuse my ignorance but can someone dumb this down for me?
I don’t bother trying to parse the posts where it’s just a stream of tweets with no narrative.
Even the indo is doing a better job of reporting this
Sure they are. Thanks for today’s laugh Rotide
I got tired of scrolling and went into the replies to work out wtf is going on.
As per usual rotide is a contrarion..
I don’t think Broadsheet considers themselves as reporters or journalists, more conduits to sources, no?
Me too, please. I mean, I get all the data stuff, but not the significance of CTI/Another 9? And in particular the link between the too?
The beneficial owner of those companies may have exerted their influence and accessed the contents of those files
where governance crosses the lines into operations
And the exact sum of sweet fupp all will happen. Hands will wring, brows will furrow, but FG’s owner will saunter back to his tax haven without so much as a finger wagged.
Already started in the PACs still operating in the investigations all being closed down
The land of corrupt little life forms
And we want to tamper with our constitution hoping they will replace what was with something acceptable to all sides of the argument
Correct. No accountability. Their state looks after their mates. Prevention of accountability will ensure the right circumstances are created to repeat a mass offsetting of future bad loans onto ordinary citizens. Tried and tested, that business model has been shown to work.
And the lovely EU will do nothing about it because they are happy that the stupid Irish are paying off debts they never incurred.
Pass me the puke bucket.
Looks like a dumbing down of this was planned…..Buckley resigns in January, Rae heads off to Europe before s*** hits the fan. They would ride a gale of wind.
Is that the same Karl Brophy who had a similar run in with that Mossad taxi driver?
and Dinny O’Brien – just as a red flag of course.
Well ,when someone has your details your safety is dependent on them
All that lovely data in a big big cloud all waiting for the right moment to be abused or sold
Time to ban the sharing of that data by law unless you opt in before you access the site or make any transaction
Maybe its time that at the click of a button you can identify your data held by others and trace where its going ,not by agreement but by law.
And be allowed to sue them.
Um. All this already exists.
Data Protection Act 1998 and the new GDPR cover these.
You can access any data held on you. You can request corrections if wrong and deletion of old data.
Actavo mentioned as a client of Another 9 in Gavin Sheridan’s tweet is another DOB controlled entity.
Its subsidiary GMC Sierra had contracts with Irish Water to instal water meters.
I would imagine that this would be very serious incident… in another country ….
Yeah, but he was paying part of Martin O’Neill’s, Roy Keane’s and Johnny Sexton’s salary so there’s that…
RTE lunchtime news. Time 13:22. One subject so far…Fodder. Next item up Salisbury. Running down the clock. Waffle, waffle and more waffle. 5 minutes would get the fodder story out of the way.
This INM story is one of the hottest news items of the decade so far. But not to RTE. Sure no one is interested?
‘Keeping People Stupid’ should be the real motto of Regime Telifis Eireann.
When in recent years do you ever recall RTE going after powerful vested interests? ‘Little people’ perhaps, such as under-performing doctors etc, and ‘human interest’ stories. But never or very rarely anybody of any significant strategic consequence. Odd how no mention is ever made of privatising the obsolete institution that is RTE.
There is a reason the government never expresses dissatisfaction with presenters being paid vast sums of money. Sure why would they want to rock the boat?
Under the EU, it really has become like living in the East Bloc in the 80’s in terms of suppression of news and prevention of accountability.
Now run along, and stop bothering the adults. Or have a grand fake laugh with Sean O’Rourke as he brings on somebody safe to discuss another myopic pointless issue… Or alternatively, end the Propaganda Tax now!
This is splendid.
How long have citizens had to put up with the daily bile and hateful half-truths inflicted on the public by INM?
Wonderfully hilarious that Rae was put into of the EU’s Fake News squad. What were the criteria? To have sacked a journalist, Gemma O’Doherty, for trying to report the police scandals?
The lovely EU clearly approves of such behaviour.
It is also interesting to see who in INM has not seemingly been subjected to the ‘data interrogation’, as those who are on the list. Given the position of power, isn’t it strange the editor is not on the list, but perhaps he can be trusted…
Malicious mismanagement of Ireland by discredited entities can only occur provided those entities have backing from outside.
Rotten, rotten, rotten to the core…
Was it for this ?
Channel 4 would be all over this if it was a UK issue. We have no journalistic equivalents here.
And that might be because there are no journalists of any substance left here. Don’t think that that’s by accident…
Why don’t yiz bring this down to the PURE fun ordinary Joe Soaps can have in this situation. Are these twitterati wanting to sue and keep all the cash for themselves? It seems like that to me. Colour me cynical! Journalists and editors are NO MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYONE ELSE and have done vanishingly little over the past decade to even earn the respect of the ordinary people: https://twitter.com/EamonnVIDF/status/981295153494347777
Jaysis, imagine the poor private investigators having to read every one of Barry Egans emails since 1999. Then having move onto Niamh Horan and Amanda Brunker too. *shudder*
Our Levinson moment. Gayvilar and co should be well versed, having sold a deep in debt Storyful to Murdoch. Sorry mate, time to STFU on this.
Many poo-pooed the threat to private data that Irish Water is and was.
Would the investigation by the ODCE mean that Questions could not be put to Leo?
What status are the DATA and GDPR bills at? Are they being pushed through before this story is given national air time?
How many sources of Journos, Military or security sources, whistleblowers etc have been indentified by this massive, unprecedented breach of data? What about Charities? Foreign agencies?
Were regional papers affected? Is Communicorp affected? How many medical or financial records are on that system or 2 decades?
If you had the information from a government backed quango( including pps numbers and financial information for maybe over a million people) plus you had information from emails from over two decades from the biggest newspaper in the country, just how much damage could you do? Insider trading? identity theft? political manipulation like Cambridge Analytica?
Who will have the liathroidí to ask questions in the Dáil?
Not even a mention of this on rte main 6 o’clock news.
Are other media outlets to scared to talk about this or what is the story.
Redacted will redact them up if they try.
It’s not like he doesn’t have a reputation for suing the crap out of anyone who dares besmirch his name.
His good name, Mildred! Can we get that straight for once and for all.
It is simply not credible that Anne Harris is not on this list.
Unless, of course…
Unless of course what? Do you think Anne could have been a double agent?