A 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.
According to the BBC, Glenn Mangham, 26, had admitted to hacking
into Facebook between April and May 2011.  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.  Yahoo had "rewarded" Mangham (with
£7,000) for revealing its vulnerabilities previously, his lawyer
Tom Ventham said.  However, prosecutor Sandip Patel said that
Mangham had acted "with determination, undoubted ingenuity and
it was sophisticated, it was calculating".  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.  Judge
Alistair McCreath said that Mangham's act