A software development student from York, UK, who hacked into Facebook has been jailed for eight months yesterday.
Glenn Mangham, 26, admitted infiltrating the social networking site between April and May last year by impersonating an employee of the social networking site and hacked into three of its servers.
According to the Daily Mail UK, he downloaded ‘highly sensitive intellectual property’ including valuable computer ‘code’ sparking panic and fear among American authorities, including the FBI, of industrial espionage.
Prosecutors described the hack as the most serious case of social media hacking ever brought before the country’s courts, and added that his actions could have brought down the whole enterprise. Facebook reportedly spent $200,000 (£126,400) dealing with his crime.
Mangham told police he was looking for a ‘mini project; when the targeted the site. He first hacked into the puzzle server, which sets tests for potential employees. He reportedly uploaded his own programs to the server.
He then hacked and hijacked the account of employee Stefan Parker after bypassing security and reset his password. Using the details, he than accessed the ‘mailman server’ and the ‘phabricator server’ which is said to contain the sites’ most sensitive intellectual property.
He told the court that his intend was to identify and compile the vulnerabilities in the systems and then bundle off to Facebook and show them what was wrong.
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