Online Poker Chip Thief Gets Two Years In Jail

jhernik writes "A 29-year-old gambler from Paignton, Devon, has been sentenced to two years in jail after hacking into an online gambling site and stealing billions of poker chips. Ashley Mitchell admitted to hacking into the servers of American gaming company Zynga Corporation in 2009 and making off with $12 million (£7.5 million) worth of gambling chips."

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Looks like he gambled his future.

[drunkennewfiemidget]

And they'll be filling his 'slot' in prison. At least there'll be plenty of tables to play. If he plays his cards right, he'll probably get a shortened sentence. Maybe he can roll the dice and get in with a gang that will protect him.

Hopefully he'll be well behaved and won't end up in the pit.

Re:Very misleading title

[Nikker]

He did deprive Zenga of about 60k of dollars/pounds by selling their 'currency' to their clients without them making that money. It's like stealing amusement park tokens and selling them to people before they enter the gate, sure the amusement park can just get more paper coupons and sell them off but now that their patronage has been saturated fewer people will buy once inside the park.