This was my thought as well. It has to be some sort of UK law? But I can't find it. The laws apply to surreptitiously installing the software on someone else's phone or computer. But then owning (and/or buying) the software shouldn't be illegal and the site shouldn't have been able to come down.
Hacking tools aren't illegal by default, that I know of anyway.
Hacking tools aren't illegal by default, that I know of anyway.