Hacking and illegal competition

Hacking seems to have been used to enter the intranet forum of the SNCF, the French rail company, by its competitor Deutsche Ban. The context is that French railway is still not open to competition, and not so until January 2010, despite Germany and Italy having opened their networks.
"L'intranet de la SNCF piraté par son concurrent allemand" (Journal du net, 16 December 2008)