Corporations Home has confirmed it’s investigating the malicious hacking of Vertu Motors’ official data.

A spokesman advised AM that Corporations Home which is an govt company of the Division for Enterprise and Commerce: “We’re conscious of this case and are working with the corporate to establish the info.”

The publicly out there information of Britain’s third-largest automotive dealership Vertu Motors had been falsely amended to point out that various administrators had resigned from the corporate and fictional new board members ncluding a ‘Mr Ice Crystal Augustus’ had been appointed of their place.

The group, which continues to be making an attempt to right the document, is looking for a court docket injunction to forestall any additional modifications and desires Corporations Home to elucidate how this was allowed to occur.

Vertu Motors made a press release to buyers on Wednesday explaining that the information had been ‘falsely amended by a malicious actor’.

The group stated: ‘The corporate confirms that not one of the above modifications have legally occurred, and that due to this fact the corporate’s board of administrators stays unchanged and is as listed on Vertu’s investor relations web site and as referenced in earlier bulletins.’

Among the many administrators stated to have had their appointment terminated are chief monetary officer Karen Anderson and chief operations officer David Crane.

Vertu Motors added: ‘The corporate is within the means of liaising with Corporations Home to have the general public document corrected, is looking for a court docket injunction to forestall any additional modifications being made to its public information by the malicious actor and is working with Corporations Home to ascertain how the malicious actor was capable of entry Corporations Home techniques to make these modifications.”

“Intentionally submitting false data on the register is a critical offence and individuals who have been discovered to have knowingly finished this could face prosecution. An individual discovered responsible may face a effective or as much as two years’ imprisonment or each,” stated the Corporations Home spokesman.