Swedish Antipiracy Agency unmasked by hackers
Press Release Sunday, March 13, 2005
For immediate release
Summary:
Swedish Antipiracy Agency’s servers hacked by Swedish hacker collective. Name of traitor in recent raid against the Bahnhof ISP unveiled.
2005-03-13. Late on Sunday night the Swedish Antipiracy Agency’s servers was hacked again. This time with a clear purpose, to disclose the agency’s ugly methods.
The hacker collective Arga Unga Hackare (Angry Young Hackers) who are remembered as the ones who hacked the agency’s website two years ago have published mail correspondence which shows proof of infiltrators in the filesharing scene.
“- Basically Angry Young Hackers have access to everything passing Swedish Antipiracy Agency’s servers”, says a person with god knowledge about the Swedish pirate scene. The reason for publishing this is mainly to avoid further damage by the Agency.
The published material shows clearly that the hacker collective have had access to large amounts of secret information. Their main goal has been to publish the name of the person acting as infiltrator in the raid against Bahnhof last week.
According to The Pirate Agency’s sources this person is until date the biggest traitor in the history of piracy. He has showed deep engagement in the pirate scene and then sold his sold the anti-pirates.
The same sources talks about large amount of money being paid by the industry in exchange for information. Transactions of at least 100 000 SEK (15.000 US Dollar) has been unveiled which were used to pay for the servers then seized by the authorities last week. The story is covered in Swedish largest paper, Aftonbladet
The Pirate Agency media contact: Tobias Andersson, +46 (0)734 072091, tobias@piratbyran.org
Story in Sweden’s largest paper Aftonbladet
http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/story/0,2789,616672,00.html
Mirror site of the hacked information
http://ak.webcust.prq.se/Arga.unga.hackare_2k5_revenge.is.sweet.htm
The Pirate Agency
http://www.piratbyran.org/
The Pirate Agency was founded in 2003 in support of the global movement against copyright and in defense of the idea that information and culture should remain free. With close to 35 000 members we are one of the largest movements in the world supporting filesharing and piracy.
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