French journalist Olivier Laurelli accessed 7.7 Gb of internal documents from the French National Agency for Food Safety, Environment, and Labor. The information that he accessed was not behind a firewall. Laurelli was charged but was eventually acquitted. A French appeals court fined Laurelli 3,000 Euros (or a little over $4,000), meaning he likely made one of the more expensive Google searches to date. This is an uncomfortable pattern that I’ve been seeing repeat recently. I find it disconcerting that companies and organizations would sooner lawyer up than to address the problem like adults.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2136231/when-hacking-isn-t.html