LONDON – A British student, who hacked into Facebook’s internal network risking “disastrous” consequences for the website, was jailed for eight months yesterday in what prosecutors described as the most serious case of its kind.
Glenn Mangham (26), a software development student, admitted infiltrating Facebook from his parents’ house in York in England last year, sparking fears at the US company it was dealing with major industrial espionage.
“Fortunately, this did not involve any personal user data being compromised,” said London’s chief prosecutor. – (Reuters)