After massive Danish hack, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg sentenced to 3.5 years

After massive Danish hack, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg sentenced to 3.5 years His accomplice was sentenced to 6 months and was released for time served.

by Cyrus Farivar Oct 31 2014 Ars Technica

After being convicted of "hacking and gross damage," Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, better known by his nom de hacker "anakata," was sentenced (Google Translate) to 3.5 years in prison by a Danish court on Friday.

One day earlier, the Pirate Bay co-founder was found guilty of illegally accessing the country's driver's license database (Google Translate), social security database, and the shared IT system across the Schengen zone, Europe's common passport regions. Using this access, he obtained the e-mail accounts and passwords of 10,000 police officers and tax officials. All of that data was managed by CSC, a large American IT contractor.

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