French nuclear giant EDF has been fined 1.5 million euros by a Paris court on Thursday for hacking the computers and putting virus into the network of environmental group Greenpeace .
Two of the group's security chiefs were also sentenced to prison for their role in the affair, which involved the theft of confidential documents from the computer of the former head of Greenpeace France, Yannick Jadot.
Crime
In 2006, EDF hired a private detective agency called Kargus Consultants, run by a former member of the French secret services, to spy on the Greenpeace France plans. The agency send an email with Trojan Attachment to the director Yannick Jadot. When he opened the document , the Trojan was infect the system and opened back door of Hackers. The agency accessed around 1,400 documents on Jadot's computer.Sentenced
French Judge Isabelle Prévost-Desprez pronounced a verdict of guilty in the trial of French state owned energy giant EDF, which was accused of industrial scale espionage against Greenpeace. She sentenced EDF executive Pierre-Paul François to three years imprisonment, with 30 months suspended and Pascal Durieux three years imprisonment, two years suspended and a 10,000 Euro fine for commissioning the spying operation.The judge also handed down a guilty verdict in the case of Thierry Lorho, the head of Kargus, the company employed by EDF to hack into the computers of Greenpeace. He has been sentenced to three years in jail, with two suspended and a 4,000 Euro fine.
EDF has been fined 1.5 million Euros and ordered to pay half a million Euros in damages to Greenpeace.
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