UK: Hacker Dodges Prison Term
Tom Espiner writes on ZDNet.co.uk:
A hacker has been sentenced to eight months imprisonment, suspended for two years, for compromising accounts on an Internet dating site.More here.
Matthew Byrne pleaded guilty to gaining control of and defacing four member profiles on the loveandfriends.com dating site in August 2004. He was sentenced on Tuesday at Southwark Crown Court by Judge Geoffrey Rivlin, according to a Metropolitan Police spokesman.
Byrne gained control of the profiles using a dictionary attack, a technique that cracks a password or cipher by searching against a number of likely possibilities. The compromised profiles had "easily guessable" passwords, the Met Police website said.
The hacker did not gain access to the "loveandfriends" database or web servers.
posted by Fergie @ 11/08/2006 09:45:00 AM
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