>> the pair downloaded police and social security files.> What exactly are those? and what would he even want them for?
The mainframe logs show that a dataset containing a copy of the Schengen SIS was downloaded from the hacked mainframe. I don't know if the file was even found on mr Svartholm's computer. The prosecutors just concluded that they couldn't tell what happened with the datat that had been copied out from the system and therefore mr Svartholm probably did something evil with it.
So what's in Schengen SIS? It's a list of personal details for more than 1 million(!!) people that are either wanted by participating states, under surveillance or people that just lost their passports or other identity documents. You can read more here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Information_System#Da...
The government of course would like to claim that the data managed in Schengen SIS is extremly sensitive. Meanwhile they ship this data over the internet with plaintext FTP to various entities participating in Schengen SIS on a monthly basis (updates etc).
>> In a separate trial in 2013, Mr Warg and accomplice were found guilty of breaking into the computer systems of computer services firm Logica, which was doing work for Sweden's tax office and a bank.> Again, why would he hack into a bank knowing so many eyes are on him?
He was completely acquitted of the charges involving Nordea Bank in the Court of Appeals (Hovratten).
The mainframe logs show that a dataset containing a copy of the Schengen SIS was downloaded from the hacked mainframe. I don't know if the file was even found on mr Svartholm's computer. The prosecutors just concluded that they couldn't tell what happened with the datat that had been copied out from the system and therefore mr Svartholm probably did something evil with it.
So what's in Schengen SIS? It's a list of personal details for more than 1 million(!!) people that are either wanted by participating states, under surveillance or people that just lost their passports or other identity documents. You can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Information_System#Da...
The government of course would like to claim that the data managed in Schengen SIS is extremly sensitive. Meanwhile they ship this data over the internet with plaintext FTP to various entities participating in Schengen SIS on a monthly basis (updates etc).
>> In a separate trial in 2013, Mr Warg and accomplice were found guilty of breaking into the computer systems of computer services firm Logica, which was doing work for Sweden's tax office and a bank. > Again, why would he hack into a bank knowing so many eyes are on him?
He was completely acquitted of the charges involving Nordea Bank in the Court of Appeals (Hovratten).