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Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, one of the founders of the Pirate Bay file sharing site, has been found guilty of multiple hacking and fraud charges and has been sentenced to two years in prison by a Swedish court.
The Nacka District Court convicted Warg of carrying out a hacking attack against the Swedish IT firm Logica, a hack that gave him access to the personal data of thousands of people, which Warg them published online. He was also found guilty of hacking into Scandinavia’s biggest bank, Nordea.
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Another man, said to be Warg’s accomplice, was also convicted and given a probate sentence requiring him to seek psychiatric care and drug rehabilitation. ?
The Swedish court also ruled that Warg can be extradited to neighboring Denmark, where he is accused on a similar hack attack against a Danish IT firm, CSC.
Warg pleaded not guilty in his trial, claiming someone else had used his computer remotely to carry out the attacks.
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