Hacker gets seven years for breaching Rotterdam and Antwerp ports

The Amsterdam Court of Appeal sentenced a 44-year-old Dutch national to seven years in prison for multiple crimes, including computer hacking and attempted extortion.

The man was arrested in 2021 and convicted in 2022 by the Amsterdam District Court, but he appealed the sentence because authorities had unlawfully intercepted his communications, deriving incriminating evidence.

These communications occurred on the end-to-end encrypted chat service Sky ECC. Europol ‘cracked’ the service in 2021, which led to the arrest of the CEO and multiple users. The actions deriving from the operation extended into last year.

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