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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. Lol by TheSkepticalOptimist · · Score: 1, Troll

    Because Greenpeace is well known for their entirely benevolent and respectful code of conduct that does not resort to any dirty tricks.

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    I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.