14 DAY TRIAL // 26-year-old Glenn Steven Mangham managed to convince three senior judges from the Court of Appeal in London that he broke into Facebook systems only to highlight security holes, without any ill-intentions.
He was sent to jail after, in April and May 2007, he managed to steal the credentials of a Facebook employee, which he later used to gain access into the social media network’s systems.
The main issue was that he copied Facebook’s source code to his own hard drive, a fact that sparked an FBI investigation.
According to The York Press, initially, Mangham was convicted to 8 months in prison, but since the court halved that sentence, he is eligible for immediate release.
Furthermore, the restriction that banned the hacker from using computers and accessing the Internet was also lifted.
The decision comes after the judges concluded that the security expert had no intention of monetizing his findings.
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