E-mail hacker fined £20,000...

A hacker who posed as a university graduate to gain access to the e-mails of hundreds of unsuspecting students has been given a suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay more than £20,000 in costs and compensation.

Daniel Woo, a 23-year-old Bulgarian national, was sentenced for offences under the Misuse of Computers Act on 25 November.

Woo was arrested in November 2006 at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies after being spotted by IT staff investigating anomalies in the running of the computer network. More...

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