Swedish Anti-Piracy Servers Hacked
March 14, 2005
Thomas Mennecke


On Friday, Sweden’s anti-piracy unit, Antipiratbyrån, successfully raided Bahnhof, one of Sweden’s oldest ISPs. Alledgely, the ISP had been providing some of the fastest and largest servers in Europe, and was considered a haven for online piracy groups. According to Antipiratbyrån, the raid yielded " 1,800 digital movie files, 5,000 software application files and 450,000 digital audio files -- amounting to 23 terabytes of data."

While the servers were not necessarily related to P2P, the incident sparked considerable anger in the pirate community. In response to the raid, a group of Swedish hackers struck back by hacking into Antipiratbyrån's servers. The hack yielded internal memos between employees of Antipiratbyrån and other anti-piracy figures.

In a press release issued by "The Pirate Agency", an organization that stands against the theory of copyright, the raid's purpose was to expose a "traitor" that had infiltrated Bahnhof.

"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 hacked information, the infiltrator, known as "the Swede", developed a fairly tight relationship with the employees of Bahnof. The following is a segment from the compromised information released by the "Angry Young Hackers."

"The Swede" was central to this operation. He even shared coffee at one stage with the operators of the servers at the ISP's premises
(ironically located in the same building as the Swedish program)!

The compromised information is mostly in Swedish. Because of significant differences in the Swedish and English languages, translation of the information proved illegible. Below is the press released issued by "The Piracy Agency":

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Swedish Antipiracy Agency unmasked by hackers

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 soul 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.

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.


Source: http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=696

Cool

so do they have an actual name of the person? also is that kind of private infiltration in accordence with Sweedish law and would it be admissible in court?

I wonder how much that 30 pieces of silver is worth now....?????

ha ha

I don't think these guys are going to care if it's admissible in court.

This would make a great movie, if it was made in a copyright free world!

Now I hope this snitch, just like every other snitch in the world gets what they deserve.

9mm skull ventilation shaft.

Two thumbs up....

Hoping the Angry Young Hackers stay angry....they did a great job. Too many corporations making too many rules these days. Time to take down a few, don't ya think.....

soo.. i presume theyll be gathering a posse and frying every computer he buys from now until he is too old and arthritic to type?

Those pages are in swedish.. alas i cannot read it.

RIAA / MPAA sympathizers must be taken care of including Countries like Sweden. Goes to show how weak and feeble Sweden's Government is.

I love ALL of you who are on "our side"

...but my own PERSONAL feelings is that hackers who disrupt someone's site/viewpoint is WRONG

...just because it seems like it goes "our way" when something like this happens...

The means do NOT justify the ends.

Shmoo

Maybe the Angry Young Hackers are just trying to protect themselfs from this traitor!!!!

A little rebellion can be a very good thing. The big guys have all the power, all the money, and all the tools. Sometimes you have to break the law--especially if it's a bad law and it's enforced by bad people. This is a form of protest--no one really got hurt (except maybe the mole). And someday, Shmoo, it may be hackers who save the world. Who knows? I don't think it will be politicians (the more I watch CSpan, the lower my opinion of these people goes), nor do I think it will be police or soldiers. So who else?

I think it will be our soldiers starting the 2nd revolution, one day they're just going to take the wrong grunt's pc or mp3 player away and its gonna be the spark that sets the barn a blaze.

Or me, i'm all for risking my life to protect mine and the world's digital freedom.