The High Council has the appeal of Novelty in a hack-case dismissed. Press office Novum has previously been convicted for breaking the news of competitor ANP, after which the messages without permission, took over.
Novum went in cassation after a couple of years ago by the Court of guilty was found to commit computer intrusion. The High Council, the highest rechtsorgaan of the Netherlands, is the judgment of the court of appeal re-examined. The board concludes that the opinion is not incomprehensible.
The news agency, the ex-editor-in-chief and a member of the board in 2008 were sentenced for the hacking of a server at a competitor ANP. They were aware that the editors with illegal logins logged in, and then news took over. The court came to the conclusion that the defendants no measures had been taken to prevent the login information would be logged into the news server of the ANP. The convicts ‘accept it the significant chance that logins would be made to gain unauthorized access to the server of the ANP’.
The ANP came to the computer intrusion on the track after it appeared that many of the messages of Novum on the eye were the same as those of the ANP. Novum was given a fine of fifty thousand euro imposed because of the systematic break into the ANP news server.