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TinKode sentenced after hacking Oracle, NASA and others to expose weak security

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The infamous hacker known as TinKode has been sentenced by a Romanian court, according to media reports.

Cernăianu Manole Răzvan was arrested in January 2012, after a series of high profile hacks of government and military websites, exposing their poor security and often publishing passwords and screenshots as evidence.

Past victims have included website belonging to the British Royal Navy, MySQL.com (which ironically fell foul of a SQL injection attack) and NASA servers.

To the relief of many, TinKode appeared to be inspired more by the desire to embarrass organisations into improving web security - rather than making money.