Football Leaks hacker charged in Portugal with 377 offenses.

Portuguese prosecutors have finally charged Rui Pinto, a man behind the infamous Football Leaks website, which exposed corruption and some of the dirtiest practices in the global soccer industry.

Between 2015-2018, Pinto leaked about 70 million documents and 3.4 TB of data to news media, leading to the opening of legal proceedings in France, Spain, Belgium and Switzerland. Pinto allegedly obtained the information by hacking into the computers of host clubs, agents, lawyers, and investment funds.

The Football Leaks mastermind was arrested in Hungary in 2019 and extradited to Portugal. Pinto was charged with 377 offenses mostly related to the unauthorized accessing of confidential data, aggravated violation of correspondence and computer damage.