Pirate Bay co-founder arrested on hacking charges | Sedulity Groups

A co-founder of BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay has been arrested in Sweden over allegations he was involved in hacking a contractor to the country's tax authority.

Sweden's public prosecutions authority suspected Gottfrid Svartholm to be one of three involved in continued breaches of a core database held by contractor Logica over a two-year period.

The hacks, which began in 2010 and continued until April this year, reportedly involved accessing the database containing civic registration numbers for people with protected identities, with thousands of such numbers copied by the three over the breach period.

Sedulity Groups | Bulgarian Hackers Group arrested

Bulgarian authorities say that after months of investigation they have busted the “most powerful hacker group” in the country, the Cyber Warrior Invasion. The operation was conducted by Bulgaria’s Sector for Computer Crimes, Intellectual Property and Gambling and the territorial units of the Chief Directorate for Fight with Organized Crime in the municipalities of Pleven, Shumen, Plovdiv, Burgas, Haskovo, Stara Zagora and Kyustendil.