{"id":3256,"date":"2012-02-21T20:01:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T20:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/?p=3256"},"modified":"2015-09-09T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T11:37:00","slug":"uk-facebook-hacker-jailed-for-8-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2012\/02\/uk-facebook-hacker-jailed-for-8-months\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Facebook Hacker Jailed For 8 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a pretty harsh sentence if you ask me, especially since Facebook<\/a> decided in July 2011 to start paying bug bounties<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I have to say though, this guy must be a pretty talented hacker to break into the Facebook servers – they aren’t exactly low hanging fruit. I’d imagine they are some of the most hammered servers in the World (especially by script kiddies).<\/p>\n

Sadly, however talented he is, or whatever his intention was in reality – what he did was illegal and he can be punished (fairly harshly) for it.<\/p>\n

York-based software development student has been sentenced to eight months in jail for hacking into social networking site Facebook, including three of its servers, from his bedroom.<\/p>\n

According to the BBC, Glenn Mangham, 26, had admitted to hacking into Facebook between April and May 2011.<\/p>\n

Mangham used an ethical hacking defence, saying that after he showed search engine Yahoo how it could improve its security, he wanted to do the same for Facebook.<\/p>\n

Yahoo had “rewarded” Mangham (with GBP7,000) for revealing its vulnerabilities previously, his lawyer Tom Ventham said.<\/p>\n

However, prosecutor Sandip Patel said that Mangham had acted “with determination, undoubted ingenuity and it was sophisticated, it was calculating”.<\/p>\n

Patel told London’s Southwark Crown Court that Mangham had “unlawfully accessed and hacked” into Facebook’s website and its computers from his bedroom in Yorkshire, and then downloaded “invaluable” intellectual property onto an external hard drive. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s not the first time Facebook has been hacked or security issues have surfaced, but it is the first time I recall someone being jailed for it. Facebook security<\/a> hasn’t always had the best reputation – remember not long ago – Facebook Attachment Uploader Owned By A Space<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yah that wasn’t a flaw that could be leveraged to hack Facebook itself, but it was a demonstration of some of the sloppy coding involved in Facebook.<\/p>\n