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Pirate Bay Co-Founder Indicted For Hacking, Fraud
An anonymous reader writes "Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, a.k.a. 'anakata,' co-founder of The Pirate Bay, has been indicted by a Swedish court on charges of computer hacking and fraud. The prosecuting attorney said, 'A large amount of data from companies and agencies was taken during the hack, including a large amount of personal data, such as personal identity numbers of people with protected identities.' According to Ars, 'The first count of hacking involves allegedly unlawfully using another person's username and password to search Infotorg, a well-known massive privately held commercial database of "private individuals, companies, properties and vehicles." The second count, as previously reported, involves an alleged hack dating back to 2010 of Logica, a Swedish IT firm that contracts with the Swedish tax authority. In March 2012, Logica was hit by an online attack that resulted in around 9,000 Swedes (Google Translate) having their personal identity numbers and names released to the public. ... The third count of hacking, allegedly taking place between July and August 2012, accuses Svartholm Warg of unauthorized access of major Nordic region bank Nordea's computers. The fraud charges accuse Svartholm Warg of allegedly transferring and attempting to transfer money from Nordea to other unauthorized bank accounts.'"
Or are they just trying to take down the pirate bay, again.
Using someone else's login to access a computer...... so I am a felon each time I buy something with my wife's amazon account.
There needs to be a serious effort made to roll these laws back, or complaints about Google+ requiring real names on account will soon be the least of the concerns of anyone who ever tries to go on line for any reason.
-jon
Heck with this, when are they going to go after the criminals that run the bay that begins with an E?
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
whois: potentialprostitutes.com
Don't forget the lasers! Gottfrid had two of them, and he's been hacking them on to sharks. Sharks he stole with an un-authorized accounts. To cut the world in half with! Somebody stop him already! Or at least take down that pesky TPB, which ever is easier.
What illegal site were they running? Certainly not TPB, since it's still around, and hasn't _actually_ broken any laws. Or are you referring to potentialprostitutes.com? (See earlier comment titled "Not the only fraud he's been involved in") - if so, could you fill the rest of us in on what was illegal about it? There's no IP address for the name, and nothing turns up in general searches.
It should be noted that the problem is not that personal identity numbers or names have been published in Sweden, as they are public and easy to get hold of anyway.
The problem is that this information which was accessed is for those with "protected identity", meaning people with need of extra safety. Normally this would involve people who are exposed to severe risks if their identity is easy to access, like women threatened by their men or others, ex-criminals who are trying to flee from their past or people working in very exposed positions where their work might cause threats or risk if people they work with get hold of it. Worst case scenario is that people are killed if this is leaked in to the wrong people and the expenses to give them new identities (and relocating them in many cases) would be quite high and very tough for the people involved.
Remember when the only famous Swedes were sex symbols like Anita Ekberg and Ann Margret, instead of alleged criminals like the current bunch? I miss the good old days.
They got Capone on tax evasion. Seems a standard MO
you know, the only other people there at the time, say it wasn't rape and dropped the case when it turned out that it was going to be prosecuted as a rape case.
It wasn't rape,even if it was as the women themselves say it was.
And taking the blood test would have removed her case, but her case WAS NOT THAT IT WAS RAPE.
The rape case is being taken by the prosecutor, and taking a blood test has nothing to do with that, nor does the original woman get a say as to whether it goes ahead or gets dropped.
Worse, for the case, the condom that was supposedly used broken had NEVER BEEN USED.
He is so screwed. They are going to ask for four MILLION euros (not the kangaroos) for compensation of the fees of the intrepid crack team of experts who are called to clean up their systems.
This guy deserves a medal!
Why not? He was obviously innocent...
I love stacking my barbecues in the shed at the end of summer - you can't beat a bit of grill on grill action.
They forgot the kiddie porn charge and I guess they figured sticking him in solitary would enthuse him to cop a plea.
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down... This is just more BS... It is things like this that has convinced me to always vote Not-Guilty no matter what someone is charged with, unless there are dis-interested witnesses. If there is some business, or government with an interest - it's NOT GUILTY all the way...
I'll bet you defended Hans Reiser, as well.
And I bet you though Dominique Strass-Kahn was a rapist, and not a guy being set up for daring to question the viability of the U.S. dollar--whose "rock solid case" charges were dropped just one month after his U.S.-friendly IMF successor took office.
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