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Accused hacker Lauri Love to sue National Crime Agency to retrieve confiscated computing kit

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Dissent

Paul Kunert reports:

Lauri Love, the Brit who beat US attempts to extradite him over accusations of hacking, is suing Blighty’s National Crime Agency (NCA) to get back computing gear seized in 2013 as part of the case against him.

More than five years ago, Love was indicted across the pond over allegations he hacked thousands of PCs in America and other countries, inserting backdoors into networks with the aim of circling back at a later date to pilfer confidential data.

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