Court charges dev with hacking after cybersecurity issue disclosure
Court charges dev with hacking after cybersecurity issue disclosure
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A German court has charged a programmer investigating an IT problem with hacking and fined them €3,000 ($3,265) for what it deemed was unauthorized access to external computer systems and spying on data.
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Pretty ballsy that they still appealed. Fighting the good fight. 🫡
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