Data-breached Guntrader website calls in liquidators, is reborn as Guntrader 2 Ltd

2021-10-29 15:27

Guntrader Ltd entered a creditors' voluntary liquidation on 22 October.

Its director, Viscount Alexander Andover, was appointed on 21 October as the sole head of a company incorporated barely a month previously and whose initial name was Guntrader 2.uk Ltd. Guntrader's website is still operating today.

Guntrader users who filed lawsuits against the original Guntrader Ltd company are scrambling to find out whether their court cases will survive a potential liquidation.

An insolvency practitioner to whom The Register granted anonymity because he wasn't speaking as a company representative opined that legal claimants might be able to ask Guntrader's liquidators to treat them as creditors.

One of the people suing Guntrader, Andy Lowrey, told The Register today that he wanted a meaningful acknowledgement of wrongdoing by Guntrader, which has consistently downplayed the data leak and its impact on the tight-knit UK firearms community.

Police are continuing to investigate the Guntrader breach, with rumours reaching The Register that the National Crime Agency took an interest in the case over summer.

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