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EUROPE
The Polish authorities have announced the arrest of four suspected hackers as part of a coordinated strike against cybercrime . Those arrested are believed to be among the most active cybercriminals in the country . This operation was carried out by the Polish Police Centre Bureau of Investigation ( Centralne Biuro Śledecze Policji ) under the supervision of the Regional Prosecutor ’ s Office in Warsaw ( Prokuratura Regionalna w Warszawie ), together with the cybercrime departments of provincial police headquarters and Europol .
GLOBAL
An alleged criminal network of copyright infringing hackers , mainly responsible for pirating movies and hosting illegal digital content worldwide , was dismantled in a co-ordinated action between US authorities and their counterparts in 18 countries around the world , with Europol and Eurojust support . A total of 60 servers were taken down in North America , Europe and Asia and several of the main suspects were arrested . The Sparks Group obtained DVDs and Blu-ray discs of unreleased content and compromised the copyright protections on the discs to reproduce and upload the content publicly to online servers .
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