Pirate Group

Polish Police Bust Pirate Group That Hacked Academic Servers to Store Files

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 26, 2004 - 3:27am.

Warsaw -- A group of over 100 hackers who used academic computer networks to store games, movies and music they sold on the pirate market has been busted by Polish police, Reuters reported. In addition to storing their pirated wares on the university servers, the group of mainly twenty-something hackers may have also lifted and sold academic theses they found stored there. "They broke into the biggest systems they could find and set up 'warehouses' to store pirated games, films and music," police spokeswoman Agata Salatka told Reuters. "They distributed the goods through the Internet, and also supplied bazaars with the latest hits -- even before their official premieres."