Last I heard they said Mainframes can not be hacked?

[Anuj Dhawan]

Pirate Bay Co-Founder Gets 2 Years for Hacking

Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been sentenced to two years in jail for computer hacking.
A two-week trial ended today, when the Nacka District Court in Sweden handed down its verdict, TorrentFreak reported. Warg, 28, will spend two years behind bars for allegedly hacking into the mainframe of Logica, a Swedish IT company that manages data for Swedish tax authorities.

A 36-year-old unidentified man, said to be Warg's accomplice, was sentenced to probation.

The case dates back to the fall, when Warg was arrested by Cambodian police and faced possible extradition to Sweden to serve a 12-month jail sentenced finalized in October 2011. At the time, authorities seized a computer from his apartment, which Warg claimed was accessed and used in the hacking by someone else.

His protests were not enough to convince the court, though. In a translated press release, the district court today said that it is "beyond reasonable doubt that the two implemented the data breaches."

Among other pieces of evidence in the prosecutor's case was the detail that the defendants' personal signatures (Warg went by the online alias anakata) were used in conversation on chat sites, pointing to their work together.
Warg is currently serving a jail sentence for copyright infringement committed during his time with The Pirate Bay, TorrentFreak reported.

Earlier this week, the Swedish District Court also approved Warg's extradition to Denmark, where he faces accusations of hacking into the mainframes of Danish IT company CSC.

In February, Warg, along with Fredik Neij and Peter Sunde, were the subjects of TPB AFK ("The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard"), a documentary that debuted in February at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. The 82-minute flick opens on the day before The Pirate Bay trial in February 2009, when the co-founders faces $13 million in damage claims in a copyright infringement case.

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