Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, one of the founders of controversial torrent site The Pirate Bay, will face trial on hacking and fraud charges in Sweden next month.
The court papers [PDF - Swedish] filed by senior Swedish prosecutor Henrik Olin mention three other people than Svartholm Warg, by their initials only.
Svartholm Warg and accomplice MG are accused of breaking in to the InfoTorg legal database over the internet in 2010 by using other people's user names and passwords. They are said to have unlawfully searched the database and accessed a great deal of personal information relating to unknown plaintiffs in court cases.
Two further charges of breaking into Swedish tax authority contractor Nordica's mainframe, also in 2010, are laid against Svartholm Warg and MG who are accused of obtaining a large amount of data as well as civic registration numbers of people, potentially to be used for identity fraud.
The Swedish police have confiscated memory cards and hard disks as well as laptop computers that they say were used in commission of the crime, as evidence.
A sixth charge says Svartholm Warg last year fraudulently tried to reroute eight financial transactions via Nordea Bank's mainframe, attempting to steal money or cause damage.
Although the sums of money for the attempted transfers are large, 420,000 euro (A$531,315) in one case and 230,000 euro (291,000) in another, according to the prosecutor's document, Svartholm Warg only managed to transfer 24,200 Danish crowns (A$4,100) from a Danish union account at Nordea, to another account at the same bank.
The prosecutor said the fraud attempts were serious, as they were systematic and done through "advanced computer hacking". Also, the amounts of money involved were sizeable and the attempted fraud lessened public confidence in the payments system used.
Two of the charges against one of Svartholm Warg's accomplices are for breaking into Wi-Fi routers by using a signal booster and brute-force cracking passwords, but the prosecutor's document does not explain how this relates to the rest of the case.
In September last year, Svartholm Warg was arrested in Cambodia where he had fled to avoid a prison sentence after the trial against the four founders of The Pirate Bay.
He was extradited to Sweden to face charges and has been held in custody since then, serving out his original prison sentence.
