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National Lottery Sentry MBA hacker given nine months in jail after swiping just £5

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Re: This seems out of proportion to the offense

It's totally out of proportion.

Does anyone think that if the sysadmin had noticed the security issue one day that they would not have spent even more than that fixing the issues and buying new gear? And then probably missed a hole somewhere and had to repeat the process.

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