Filesharing was the cause of a major security breach that led to the personal details of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer being exposed recently.

Names, birth dates and social security numbers of 2,000 Wagner Resource Group clients, including Breyer, were exposed over the filesharing network of Limewire. For almost six month, the security breach went unnoticed.

It was, amazingly, a Washington Post reader who discovered the breach while using the filesharing service Limewire. Limewire gives users access to other people’s files. Believe it or not, 40% to 60% of all security breaches are the result of employees using filesharing services and leaving files vulnerable to exposure.

The risk of filesharing attacks poses a real risk for companies around the world, as company secrets can be leaked over the Internet. This isn’t the first of such filesharing cases and it will no doubt not be the last. It’s dumbfounding that large firms don’t have measures in place to prevent such things from happening.

While filesharing news mostly focuses on music and movies, one area that is often overlooked is videogames. Videogames often appear on filesharing networks for free downloads. You can get everything from old Dreamcast games to the latest Nintendo DS roms through filesharing and BitTorrent.

The latest videogame news is that four people who shared the game Dream Pinball 3D on a filesharing website have been ordered to pay fines of £2,750 each.

Not only that, but the legal team for the people behind the game have said that they are going after 1,000 more people who shared the game over filesharing networks. If you have a copy of the game, you’d better watch your back.

The four are accused of violating copyright laws. The game itself sells for £16. It’s not even that good of a game, so those filesharing four must really be kicking themselves for this whole debacle.