A 26-year-old Hungarian was sentenced to three years in prison in Sweden on Monday after being found guilty of spying on telecom giant Ericsson, the chief prosecutor in the case said. The man said he had hacked into Ericsson's computers to expose security weaknesses and help him get a job with the firm, the world's biggest producer of mobile phone networks.
But in sentencing him, the Stockholm district court said he had offered to sell information, a small part of which was defence related, lifted from servers at Ericsson and its joint venture Sony Ericsson over a two-year period starting in 2002.
"We found information from those two companies on DVDs and CD-roms in his apartment in Hungary," chief prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand said. "He has also admitted to copying the information."
Ericsson is involved in developing radar systems for the high-tech JAS 39 Gripen fighter plane, Sweden's main strike warplane, which Hungary is to lease from Sweden.
The man, identified by Swedish media as Csaba Richter, has three weeks to appeal the sentence.
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