Pirate Bay Co-Founder Charged With Hacking and Fraud

Being one of the co-founders of the notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay means you constantly live on the edge of legality. But Gottfrid Svartholm Warg may have crossed that line completely. According to charges levied against him on Tuesday by Swedish prosecutors, he hacked into a bank, the government’s federal taxing agency, and several other companies.

"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 (personnummer) of people with protected identities," Swedish prosecutor Henrik Olin said in a statement Read more...