Ashley Mitchell, 29, will now spend the next two years of his life in prison. The computer hacker stole £7.4million worth of online gambling chips. The target was the Zynga Corporation, the American company behind many popular Facebook games, including a poker game. Poker players would get chips for signing up and could win chips as they played. Mitchell hacked the computers and stole the chips and then created online accounts to sell them, many on Facebook itself. He stole 400 billion chips and sold them for a fraction of their worth, making about £53,000.
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