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.
  • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Well if that isn’t a great way to ensure nobody comes forward when they find major vulnerabilities, idk what is.

    Hope he wins the appeal.

    • Funkymatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      It looks like the charges are from using the credentials they found not just for finding them. It’s definitely a crap charge because logging into the DB exposed the wider issue of being able to access other customers records.

    • xinayder@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      The only thing I see they did wrong was to disclose the vulnerability before waiting for a comment from the software company.