Man arrested over theft of 500,000 yen from (postal savings) account (using Limewire)

A man was arrested Monday on suspicion of stealing about 500,000 yen from a postal savings account using LimeWire file-sharing software, police said.

According to the Nagano prefectural police, this is the first known case of the software being used to gain illegal access to an Internet banking system.

Arrested was Mitsugu Tominaga, 34, of Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, who is on trial on charges of violating the Antiunauthorized Access Law.

Junichi Iwai, 33, of Hatogaya in the prefecture, who had been indicted on the same charge in an earlier case, was sent to the prosecutors for the same charge.