I hope that British Student Glenn Mangham thinks that it was all
worth it. He has a long lonely road ahead of him and it won’t include
surfing social network sites. He was sentenced to eight months in jail
for hacking into Facebook’s servers.
Glenn Mangham, 26, admitted to infiltrating the website between April
and May of last year. Apparently no user details were taken, as he went
straight for "invaluable” intellectual property instead. Facebook
alerted the authorities last May after they discovered the breach. The
FBI took care of the rest, tracing it all back to the UK address. He
found his way in by hacking into the account of a Facebook employee.
He had previously shown the search engine Yahoo how it could improve
its security and he said that he wanted to do the same for Facebook. The
judge did not buy it.
