By editorial@silicon.com, 6 July 2001 13:25
NEWS Welsh hacker Raphael Gray has received a psychiatric community order after he hacked into a number of computer systems, including those of Seattle giant Microsoft.
Nineteen-year-old Gray took advantage of his breach of Microsoft's secure system to access Bill Gates' credit card details and order the world's richest man the impotence drug viagra.
The teenage hacker, who pleaded guilty to stealing credit card details from a series of websites, narrowly escaped a custodial sentence and received a three-year care sentence from Swansea Crown Court.
For more information see:
Virus writers prey upon newsgroups
http://www.silicon.com/a45527
By Nicole Dryburgh
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