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York Facebook hacking student Glenn Mangham jailed
« on: February 17, 2012, 04:46:38 PM »
A software development student from York who hacked into Facebook has been jailed for eight months.

Glenn Mangham, 26, had earlier admitted infiltrating the social networking website between April and May 2011.

Mangham, of Cornlands Road, York, had shown search engine Yahoo how it could improve security and said he wanted to do the same for Facebook.

Sentencing Mangham, Judge Alistair McCreath said his actions could have been "utterly disastrous" for Facebook.

Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-17079853
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    Re: York Facebook hacking student Glenn Mangham jailed
    « Reply #1 on: February 29, 2012, 06:45:56 AM »
    Yes, that happens when Facebook is the "victim", but what happens when smaller companies are the "victims"?
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