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Court charges dev with hacking after cybersecurity issue disclosure (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Pretty ballsy that they still appealed. Fighting the good fight. 🫡

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    However, the court decided that unauthorized access to data protected with a password violates Section 202c of the German Criminal Code, also known as the Hacker Paragraph.

    The issue is the dev was authorized by the company he was working for to access their data, he had no way of knowing he would unwittingly be accessing everybody in the world's data

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