Microsoft Hires a 14-year-old Hacker

Microsoft Hires a 14-year-old Hacker

What’s the best way to land a programmer’s job at Microsoft? Well, there’s the standard method of going to school for computer science, succeeding admirably, creating programs of your own and then applying and hoping you get the nod. Then there’s the slightly less orthodox method employed occasionally by young and ambitious hackers. In this case, a 14-year-old Irish hacker managed to break into the online servers for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 last month and start a phishing scam that tried to get other players to divulge personal…

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