One strike against Paypal alone cost the site ..3.5 million pounds. Jake Birchall escaped jail after judge ruled he had been affected by special needs. He was an advanced user of the internet and had used it for nine years, since he was eight years old. Judge: “He did play a prominent and important part in this and I think he has got to learn to get out of bed in a morning and do unpaid work” Ashley Rhodes, 28, of Bolton Crescent, Camberwell, south London, was given seven months, and Peter Gibson, 24, of Castletown Road, Hartlepool, given a six-month suspended sentence.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2013/02/paypal-hacker-escaped-jail.html