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.'"

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Re:Did he really do it?

[hackus]

Not insightful.

First of all, Pirate Bay is not a site to download illegal wares. If you use it for that purpose, it is not the problem of the people running the site who also have science and mathematics, education and other materials for download.

The result of this sort of fascist thinking is that Science and Mathematics are also criminal to download. Not surprising because as we read in our history books, fascism likes to burn books. This is just a modern equivalent, burning web sites.

This sort of mind numbingly dumb thinking is what destroys a society and allows its government to rape and pillage its citizenry. Right now in the United States you are witnessing how a free country self destructs. First, a bunch of wacked out people on psychotropic drugs take a gun and shoot people. The response? All law abiding citizens must be disarmed and be prevented from defending themselves from such freaks and common criminals and ban all guns.

The result? Criminals get guns, and you get to watch people die including yourself because it is illegal to do otherwise. Chicago is coming to a community near you!

We have had other countries in the past bomb our soil, we didn't need to do these things to our constitution. This is a fascist bankster take over, and if you are reading this in Europe, you already know what that is like.

They want the guns because unlike you yellow ass euro's we will shoot the f*ckers if they try anything like the Cyrpus crap.

I don't believe for a minute this is about copyright. They do not like the free flow of information public point to point systems provide, period.

It is against the fascist educational system that wants to make you pay for every thought, and it is against the banksters who only want those that can pay for an education to have one so that they can control who gets educated.

-Hack