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Facebook Hacker Who Stole $11m From Zynga Poker Gamer Gets Slapped With Two Year Jail Term

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After stealing £7m ($11.4m) in virtual money from Zynga, Brit Ashley Mitchell has been sent to jail for two years to think long and hard about how his gambling addiction led him to that cold grey cell. Honestly, I don’t know what’s worse—that he stole £7m in poker chips but only managed to sell a third of them for £53,612, or that he was foolish enough to use his neighbors’ Wi-Fi to do so. [The Guardian via The Inquirer via Engadget]

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