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Hong Kong teenage hacker gets community service

OUT-LAW News, 19/02/2002

A 19-year-old Hong Kong resident has been sentenced to 120 hours of community service for accessing the server of his former employer and deleting computer records, according to a report by Newsbytes.

Meanwhile, ZDNet reports that six members of a French warez group have been fined €40,000 and sentenced to prison terms of up to six months. Between 1996 and 2000, the group were selling pirated software on the internet.

 

 

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