Prison for hacking in to a FB account

[hc4361]

Bet it was a famous person and not Joe Bloggs.

http://www.pcpro.co.u...-jailed-for-12-months

[rockyracoon]

You'd think someone who was clever enough to hack into an account would take steps not to get caught, unbelievable. Probably was someone famous.

[jake-the-peg]

Don't you think that it's interesting that the victim was (presumably) American, that Facebook is American and the case was heard in the UK.

Some variation in the rules it seems

[hc4361]

No. The hacker was in the UK when he broke the UK law.

[bazwillrun]

Better off being a thief or a sex criminal

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18101306

absolutely ludicrous sentence

[ummmm]

Depends what the hacker did with the account.

[oldbillbuck]

surely the need for phone hacking of celebs has gone now, they post it all on twitter these days

[ojread2]

The FBI??

Wow, for Facebook?

[EDDIE51]

Must have been a senior US govenment official or some one very important in USA for the FBI to be involved.

[ojread2]

Indeed, for my money to be wasted on a hacked FB a/c I'd want it to be the President's account :D

[ummmm]

Like I said, it depends what they done with the account.

[EDDIE51]

Worries me that senior officials or diplomats are daft enough to have face book accounts. It is well known that FB can never be fully secure .