Crime, it just doesn’t pay. Well, actually it does, to the tune of £53,612, but you then get caught and you’ve got to work off that salary with two years at Her Majesty’s pleasure. One Ashley Mitchell, an enterprising 29-year old from Devon, England, managed to damage into Farmville maker Zynga ‘s mainframe, hijack the identities of 2 of its staffers, and acquire for himself a funky £7 million ($11.4m) in virtual poker chips. He then proceeded to sell a few third of them for the above sum, while consuming a large chunk of remainder in satisfying his own gambling habit. Ashley already had a history of digital malfeasance, having previously hacked into the systems of Torbay Council, his former employer, and is now at the receiving end of a two-year prison term for his current crime plus the activation of a 30-week suspended sentence. There’s a warning during this tale of woe for us all, however — Monsieur Mitchell piggybacked on his neighbors’ unsecured WiFi networks that will do his dastardly deeds. Slap a password on that router, won’t you?
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