Danish police have identified Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg as the mastermind behind a hacker attack on the Danish police register of driving licence holders and wanted people across the EU. … Read More
Try ‘Drop’, the latest game from Minecraft creator Notch
The latest game from the mastermind behind Minecraft is now available. Drop is a minimalistic browser-based game that features only one thing in common with the title that made Markus “Notch” Persson an indie game star: cubes (and hexagons). … Read More
Pirate Bay co-founder charged with hacking, fraud in Sweden
The 27-year-old’s charges include aggravated fraud, attempted aggravated fraud, and being an accomplice to attempted aggravated fraud, according to The Local. He is expected to stand trial next month. Warg and the other defendants allegedly hacked into Nordea Bank to transfer money from various bank accounts. In total, the four men reportedly attempted to transfer just over US$900,000. According to prosecutor Henrik Olin, only one of the attempts succeeded. In that case, approximately $4,300 was transferred from a Danish Nordea bank account by hacking the mainframe that was located in Sweden. The men are also accused of hacking into the databases of several Swedish businesses and the government’s federal taxing agency. “A large amount of data from companies and agencies was taken during the hack, including a large amount of personal data, such as personal identity numbers of people with protected identities,” Olin said in a statement on Tuesday. Olin told Swedish media that Warg, who is known by his online handle ‘anakata’, was the mastermind behind the hacks.“I’d say that Svartholm Warg is the main person and brains behind the hacker attack,” he said. The attacks are said to have begun in 2010, and continued until April 2012. According to the indictment, authorities seized a computer and chat transcripts of Svartholm Warg and the other suspects. Olin claims that it is the biggest investigation into a data intrusion ever conducted in the country. Warg, who was deported back to Sweden from Cambodia last year, is currently serving a jail term for copyright violations related to his involvement in The Pirate Bay – the world’s largest file-sharing site. Just last week, the site attempted to change its Web domain to Greenland’s ‘.gl’ after allegations that Sweden may soon seize the page’s ‘.se’ extension, but the Greenland domain was quickly blocked. The site is now back online in Sweden. The website, which was launched in 2003, is one of the most popular destinations for accessing free films and music online. It has previously claimed to have more than 30 million users worldwide. … Read More
“Oz” great and powerful at the box office
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Oz the Great and the Powerful” clicked with moviegoers.Disney’s 3-D prequel to the classic L. Frank Baum tale “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” debuted in first place and earned $80.3 million at the weekend box office in the U.S. and Canada and $69.9 million overseas, according to studio estimates Sunday.”Oz” tells the origin of James Franco as the wizard with Mila Kunis, Michelle Williams and Rachel Weisz as the trio of witches he encounters after crashing in the mystical realm of Oz.The updated take on “Oz,” which was directed by original “Spider-Man” trilogy mastermind Sam Raimi, was a gamble that looks like it will pay off for the Walt Disney Co. The film reportedly cost $200 million and opened a week after “Jack the Giant Slayer,” another big-budget 3-D extravaganza that reimagines a classic tale, flopped in its opening weekend, debuting with $28 million at the box office.”Oz” was also golden overseas. The film conjured up $69.9 million from 46 foreign markets, including Russia and the United Kingdom. “Oz” could follow in the footsteps of Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland,” another costly 3-D film, which opened on the same weekend in 2010 and went on to gross over $1 billion worldwide.Continue Reading… … Read More
Leading dancer suspected behind acid attack on Bolshoi Theater Ballet director
Pavel Dmitrichenko and Yury Zarutsky, also a leading dancer inRussia’s Bolshoi Theater, were detained by police on Tuesday, theMinistry of Internal Affairs said.Dmitrichenko is suspected to be the mastermind of the attack onSergey Filin, the Ballet director of the theater, and his colleagueis presumed to be the executor of the attack, law enforcementofficials told Interfax news agency.“At this point investigators have evidence that the attack wasordered by Dmitrichenko, the motives are being investigated,” asource also told RIA Novosti news agency.Dmitrichenko was allegedly embroiled in a feud with Filin over ayoung student dancer, who the ballet director didn’t want topromote, reported Russian TV channel Vesti 24.The third detained suspect in the case is the alleged driver,Andrey Lipatov. The man supposedly brought Zarustky to the scene toexecute the crime, Interfax reports.The driver was arrested outside Moscow earlier on Tuesdayafter police analyzed all the mobile calls made aroundthe time of the attack in the area of Filin’s home, where theassault took place. Lipatov has no connections with the theater orthe ballet troupe and he claims to have known nothing of theplanned deed, the police said.On January 17, Sergey Filin, was attacked by a masked assailantwho splashed acid onto his face. Filin suffered third degree burnsto his face and neck and was immediately hospitalized. He underwentsurgery in Germany to restore his eyesight.Shortly after the incident, the ballet director announced thathe knew who was behind the attack, but did not name the assailantpublicly, explaining that this may disrupt the ongoing policeinvestigation. … Read More
