UK man accused of attacking multiple Facebook servers

A 25-year-old British man has been charged with hacking into multiple Facebook servers that handled internal and external services.

August 20, 2011, Softpedia -- (International) UK man accused of attacking multiple Facebook servers. A 25-year-old British man has been charged with hacking into multiple Facebook servers that handled internal and external services.

The student from York is accused of repeatedly bypassing Facebook's security and accessing its protected systems. He was arrested by Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit officers in early June on suspicion of serious offenses under the Computer Misuse Act.

At his first court hearing the week of August 15, prosecutors claimed the man repeatedly hacked into what was described as a "Facebook puzzle server" between April 27 and May 9. The company uses such servers to issue challenges to programmers. The man's intrusions has led to service disruptions.

The man also attempted to hack a server running the mailman mailing list software April 29. The company used the server for both internal and external purposes. The week of May 2, the man hacked into a so-called Facebook phabricator server that is designed to help developers design games and other apps. The prosecution also claims the suspect "made, adapted, supplied or offered to supply" a program that hacked this Phabricator server.

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Source: DHS Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report 23 August 2011