Edward Pearson, 23, could have made ..834,000 if he chose to use the information he hacked out of people’s Paypal accounts. Pearson, an ‘incredibly talented’ boarding school student who carried out the crime for an ‘intellectual challenge, has been jailed for two years and two months. His girlfriend, Cassandra Mennim, 21, used stolen credit cards to book rooms at two upmarket York hotels. Investigators linked Pearson’s email address to an online identity, G-Zero, which Pearson purported to have used on underground hacking forums.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2012/04/british-paypal-hacker-jailed-for.html