British student jailed for hacking Facebook

Source: news.com.au

A STUDENT who infiltrated Facebook in what prosecutors called "the most extensive and flagrant" case of social media hacking ever heard in a British court was jailed for eight months.

Glenn Mangham, 26, admitted hacking into the website from his bedroom in Yorkshire, northeast England, between April and May last year.

"This was the most extensive and flagrant incidence of social media hacking to be brought before British courts," said Alison Saunders of the Crown Prosecution Service.

Mangham, a software development student, claimed he had been trying to expose weaknesses in Facebook's security and was not driven by financial motives.

"It was to identify vulnerabilities in the system so I could compile a report that I could then bundle over to Facebook," he told Southwark Crown Court in London.

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