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French Power Company Fined For Hacking Greenpeace

Posted by samzenpus on from the rubber-boat-envy dept.

judgecorp writes "Electricite de France (EDF) which uses nuclear reactors to generate the majority of France's electricity, has been found guilty of hacking into Greenpeace computers in 2006. EDF has been fined fined €1.5 million and ordered to pay Greenpeace a further half a million euros, for what the judge described as an act of 'industrial scale espionage.'"

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  1. Um, OK. by Millennium · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As long as this rule applies both ways -i.e. if Greenpeace were to hack into the computers if some other company, they would be fined a more or less equal amount- then I can't say I see any problem with it.

  2. Re:a hefty bill? by Gideon+Wells · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I used to think like that, but then I worked for a company that cost several hundred million to build. Millions of dollars came in and left through the place on a daily basis at times. They only got to keep pennies on the dollar and most of the money had to go towards the loans and other investors. There were times the company had tens of thousands on its books as usable, owned, cash.

    You can't judge cost to build as the standard for something like this. The investors and owners, probably could come up with that easily. The company itself if there are enough shield corporations between it and the owners? Hard to say.

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  3. Re:Kinda low by The+Askylist · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Kargus was also the firm involved in hacking the anti-doping lab which had caught out Floyd Landis for cheating in the Tour de France. Landis was given a 1 year suspended sentence, as was his coach.

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    The Kargus guy involved got 3 years, and the hacker himself 2, but with 18 months suspended.

    AFP report here