Pirate Bay co-founder can be extradited to Denmark to face hacking charges

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2013-06-18-image-15.jpg" style="max-width: 98%;" /><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none;">A Swedish district court has <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/pirate-bay-co-founder-can-be-extradited-to-denmark-over-new-hacking-charges/" style="color: #05408f; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">ruled</a> that Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg can be extradited to Denmark to face charges that he was involved in one of the country’s largest hacking attacks. What’s more, Warg must remain in custody until he can be transferred and will have restrictions placed on who he can have contact with.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none;">In an e-mail to ComputerSweden magazine, district magistrate Jonas Alberg said the transfer must take place no later than five days after the ruling goes into effect. Whether or not the transfer will take place and when it will happen isn’t up to the district court. Instead, the state prosecutor must determine that in cooperation with Dutch authorities.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none;">Warg and another unnamed Danish co-defendant were accused last month of hacking into the country’s social security database, driver’s license database, a shared IT system in the Schengen zone as well as accessing e-mail accounts and passwords of 10,000 tax officials and police officers. We’re hearing that the data was all managed by IT contractor CSC.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none;">Theft of social security numbers could prove most problematic as Danish social security numbers also include an individual’s birthday as part of the string of numbers. This makes them difficult to reissue and potentially more valuable with regards to identity theft. There are already reports of similar data being sold on the black market although it is unrelated to this case.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none;">If found guilty, the men could spend up to six years in prison.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/52947-pirate-bay-co-founder-can-be-extradited-to-denmark-to-face-hacking-charges.html" target="_blank">Read More...</a></div></div>

Pirate Bay co-founder can be extradited to Denmark to face hacking charges

A Swedish district court has  ruled  that Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg can be extradited to Denmark to face charges that he...

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