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Facebook hacker jailed for eight months: on guardian.co.uk: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/17/facebook-hacker-glenn-mangham-jailed
QUOTE:
'A student who hacked into Facebook in "the most extensive and grave" case of social media hacking ever to come before a British court has been sentenced to eight months in prison.
Glenn Mangham, 26, admitted to infiltrating the website from his bedroom in his parents' house last year, sparking fears by US authorities that Facebook was the target of industrial espionage.
Prosecutors said that he stole "invaluable" intellectual property after hacking into the account of a Facebook employee who was on holiday, and through it obtained restricted internal data.
Mangham, a software development student from Cornlands Road, York, claimed that he had previously shown the search engine Yahoo how it could improve its security and said he wanted to do the same for Facebook.' ..
Facebook hacker jailed for eight months: on guardian.co.uk: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/17/facebook-hacker-glenn-mangham-jailed
QUOTE:
'A student who hacked into Facebook in "the most extensive and grave" case of social media hacking ever to come before a British court has been sentenced to eight months in prison.
Glenn Mangham, 26, admitted to infiltrating the website from his bedroom in his parents' house last year, sparking fears by US authorities that Facebook was the target of industrial espionage.
Prosecutors said that he stole "invaluable" intellectual property after hacking into the account of a Facebook employee who was on holiday, and through it obtained restricted internal data.
Mangham, a software development student from Cornlands Road, York, claimed that he had previously shown the search engine Yahoo how it could improve its security and said he wanted to do the same for Facebook.' ..
