Australia, June 30 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 29:
1. This is an application for leave to proceed and for default judgment against defendants who have not been personally named because their identities are unknown. I set out in the following paragraphs some background factual matters that have been established on evidence that has not been challenged.
2. The University of Notre Dame Australia is a national Catholic university. It is a body corporate established by the University of Notre Dame Australia Act 1989 (WA). The University has become the victim of an extortion attempt. In January this year, in excess of 60 GBs of data, comprising some 60,000 files, were stolen by unn...