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Appeals court halves Pirate Bay co-founder prison sentence

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The Court of Appeal cleared Warg of hacking into the mainframe of Sweden’s Nordea bank, but upheld the guilty verdict of illegally accessing the information from the Logica IT-company’s mainframe, which stored the Swedish tax authority's census data, according to TorrentFreak’s Wednesday report. Warg had been convicted of Internet piracy back in 2009, and was extradited from Cambodia to Sweden in 2012 to begin his one-year jail sentence. He was then charged by authorities in the separate Nordea and Logica hacking investigation. Despite denying his involvement in the crimes, the 28-year-old computer specialist was found guilty in both cases, with his violations including hacking, aggravated fraud and attempted aggravated fraud. In June 2013, Sweden’s Nacka District Court sentenced Warg to two years behind bars. Warg wasn’t satisfied with the verdict, claiming that the judges didn’t examine the available evidence thoroughly enough. In July, he announced his plans to appeal the District Court’s decision, with the re-trial in the Court of Appeal beginning earlier in September.   The testimony of Jacob Appelbaum, the developer of Tor online anonymity software and former WikiLeaks spokesma, has become one of the highlights of the process. He confirmed Svartholm’s theory that his computer had been taken over and abused remotely. But Warg, also known under the online nickname ‘anakata’, may face the further  trail in neighboring Denmark where he’s wanted for hacking into outsourcing group CSC's servers to access files belonging to the police. “We already have an arrest warrant and a request for extradition on the Swedish man, and he will be extradited to Denmark within a few days,” Copenhagen Police Commissioner, Hans Erik Raben, told Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet on Wednesday. He added that an alleged accomplice to Warg, a 20-year-old man, is already in custody. The popular file-sharing website The Pirate Bay was founded in Sweden in 2003 by Warg, Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde to allow the users do download music, films and video games for free. The website later moved its domain to .sx, which is registered in Sint Maarten, a Dutch territory in the Caribbean, due to frequent attempts by the Swedish authorities to shut it down. Read More

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