Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was charged with hacking the IBM mainframe of Logica, a Swedish IT firm that provided tax services to the Swedish government, and the IBM mainframe of the Swedish Nordea bank, the Swedish public prosecutor said on Tuesday.  

“This is the biggest investigation into data intrusion ever performed in Sweden,” said public prosecutor Henrik Olin.

Besides Svartholm Warg the prosecution charged three other Swedish citizens. Two of them live in Malmö and provided accounts for money transfers while one other — who lives in the middle of Sweden — was charged with mainframe hacking, Olin said. The third man and Svartholm Warg were also charged with hacking into the Bisnode webservice system that is part of Logica’s mainframe environment, Olin added.

All of the suspects are men. The two from Malmö were born in 1993 and 1994, and the other man who has been into hacking for quite some time was born in 1976, Olin said. They are related to the Pirate Bay, Olin said.

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