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26-year-old Glenn Mangham, who admitted hacking Facebook from within his bedroom at his parents’ house in York, has been jailed for eight months. At least it now means he’s moved out of mum & dad’s house.
Glenn, who was studying software development at the time of the attack in April 2011, claimed his aim was to help Facebook by exposing its security flaws, but that excuse didn’t wash with prosecutors, who said he committed “the most extensive and flagrant incidence of social media hacking to be brought before British courts.”
Rather than stealing personal data of the social site’s uses, Glenn accessed internal Facebook information, in an attack Facebook deemed serious enough to get the FBI involved.
At least Mangham has something good to put on his software developer CV when he gets out of prison — the courts said his attacks “involved considerable technical expertise.” [IT Pro]
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“At least Mangham has something good to put on his software developer CV when he gets out of prison”
Yep, a criminal record.
Good luck.
I hope someone gives him a job when he gets out, what a waste of ‘prison space’ throwing somebody in there who is obviously pretty fucking smart and didn’t intend to do any harm. Personally I think he should have that wiped and someone give him a job doing something useful instead of tainting his chances of getting any type of job.
Yup, he’s definitely not going to turn black hat, now.
He used to come around to our house a lot when we were all younger, and he always used to be tech-savvy, along with being awesome at video games. Oh, how he grew.
Nice – You have just been flagged by the MI5, CIA, FBI, DWP AND CSA.