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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nismok" data-source="post: 10352111" data-attributes="member: 109094"><img src="http://d3m0.info/imageuploads/MicrosoftHacker-Post-thumb-615x300-53598.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Meet Jake. Jake, whose last name we don't know and whose first is  only public because of the name tag that he's wearing in this picture,  is a 14-year-old hacker. From his home in Dublin, Ireland, Jake recently  broke into the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 servers and started a phishing scam to collect user information.Microsoft  first thought that the hack was part of the same attack on the  PlayStation Network that was launched following Sony's decision to take  the young hacker George Hotz to court. Like Anonymous' decision to <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/anonymous-takes-down-visacom-in-wikileaks-protest-925" target="_blank">bring down the Visa and Mastercard websites</a> in  response to the cold shoulder they gave WikiLeaks, The PlayStation hack  was the latest in a string of attacks made in retaliation for an action  and not, as so many others are, simply for the <a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/06/hackers-taunt-security-firm-sony-finally-owns/38630/" target="_blank">lulz</a>.After  discovering that the hack wasn't related to the Sony problem, Microsoft  issued an alert. The news made the rounds on hacking portals and some  alternative weeklies, but went largely unnoticed in the mainstream  press; it was overshadowed by the PlayStation network outage. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/hackers-hired-by-tech-companies-2011-6?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Falleyinsider%2Fsilicon_alley_insider+%28Silicon+Alley+Insider%29#" target="_blank">Business Insider</a> calls  attention to Jake, though, in a new gallery of "young troublemakers"  who received job offers after hacking into Facebook, Apple and the  websites of other big-name companies.Jake, it turns out, is now  working with Microsoft. "According to the managing director of Microsoft  in Ireland, the company is helping the hacker 'develop his talent for  legitimate purposes,'" <a href="http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/05/14-year-old-hacker-hired-by-microsoft.html" target="_blank">Hacker News</a> reported. "Paul Rellis delivered his keynote address during Bank of  Ireland Business Week," <a href="http://www.tekgoblin.com/2011/05/27/14-year-old-call-of-duty-hacker-hired-by-microsoft/" target="_blank">TekGoblin</a> added. "Rellis revealed that Microsoft planned to work  with the Dublin teenager."Many hacking websites argued that this  is exactly what Sony should have done with George Hotz. Clearly Hotz is a  talented programmer -- he's also responsible for first jailbreaking  Apple's iPhone -- with considerable skill navigating Sony's networks.  When Hotz broke into Sony's network so that he could play PlayStation 2  games on the PlayStation 3 console, he was committing a crime, but it  wasn't one that hurt Sony in any significant way. When Sony decided to  sue, an army of hackers took down the company's network. All of that  could have been avoided, but should we be rewarding, and even  encouraging, hackers?</blockquote>

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