The Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid “anakata” Svartholm Warg, held in a Swedish prison for seven months, has been indicted today with serious fraud, attempted aggravated fraud, and aiding attempted aggravated fraud. The trial has been scheduled for late May in Stockholm.





According to Swedish news website Nyheter 24, Svartholm Warg has been officially charged with “three counts of computer hacking, one case of serious fraud, and a case of attempted aggravated fraud.” Warg is indicted with three other defendants.

The charges involve hacking into a privately held commercial database and stealing private data, revealing 9,000 personal identity number s and names of Swedes citizens, and trying to transfer funds illegally from a bank.

Swedish prosecutor Henrik Olin said in a statement, “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.” He believes “Svartholm Warg is the main person and brains behind the hacker attack.”

Warg was arrested in Cambodia last September. Initially, the arrest was thought to be because of a case related to The Pirate Bay in which Warg was sentenced guilty. But, Warg was taken into custody upon his ‘return’ from Cambodia for a alleged hacking into servers of Logica, a firm that handles Swedish tax documents. He was later accused of several other fraud cases.

Source: Arstecnica

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