http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/Hacker-jailed-for-three-years/2005/04/05/1112489456181.html Stockholm April 5, 2005 A Hungarian who cracked the computer system of Swedish mobile telecommunications group Ericsson was sentenced to three years in prison on Monday for accessing top-secret documents, Swedish news agency TT reported. The hacker was convicted on charges of industrial espionage and illegal use of secret information, according to the report. The 26-year-old defendant, whose name was not revealed by the court, could have faced a six-year jail sentence. He admitted to gaining entry to Ericsson's intranet system illegally but said he did not think the information he had accessed there was classified. The man said he wanted to expose security failings at Ericsson "as a provocation" with the hope of being recruited for a job at the Swedish company, TT said. "The court followed my recommendations and determined that the charges were founded," Tomas Lindstrand, chief international prosecutor in Stockholm, was quoted by TT as saying. The case covered spying between the period of March 2002 and June 2004 from countries including Sweden and Hungary. Fingered by Swedish intelligence in 2003 when he tried to sell some of the information he had acquired on the internet, he was arrested in October 2004 at the airport in Malmo, southern Sweden where investigators had arranged a "business meeting". _________________________________________ Network Security - http://www.auditmypc.com Free vulnerability test - How secure is your computer?
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