After a sixth email warning in June 2010, Mr. Angelastri says MasterCard demanded he hire a forensic investigator to do a thorough review of his system, essentially a digital version of the investigations that police often conduct at crime scenes.
"We have around 140, 000 police officers in the UK. And yet barely 1, 000 of them have been trained to handle digital evidence at the basic level and fewer than 250 are currently with Computer Crime Units or have higher level forensic skills, " said David Harrington, report author.