14-year-old Dubliner causes international alert by hacking Microsoft Xbox game

Well this is clearly how the police should recruit their officers and who better to take over the asylum? Thank you Microsoft for showing that hard work, a firm grasp of ethics and excellent SAT scores mean nothing if you just nip down to the electronic equivalent of the Microsoft offices and lob a digital brick through their virtual window. "Hey! That's genius. Come in and be the VP for glazing." Ridiculous.

Smart lad,he even managed to swing Microsoft into sending him to college,that's the plan from Ireland,s gm of Microsoft,love the irony keeping,him out of trouble by getting him to come and work for them,well done.

'Hacking' should have an automatic penalty / sentence so very severe that no one would dare! At the very least this CrimeScumBag should NEVER see a computer again in his entire life! He knew this was wrong; where's his parents? At 14, THEY need to be horsewhipped...