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A COMPUTER hacker yesterday admitted breaking into Facebook’s servers.

Glenn Mangham, 26, repeatedly breached the social network website this year in what a court heard was one of the most shocking examples of its kind.

Southwark crown court heard Mangham ­downloaded his own programmes on to the internal server.

Prosecutor Sandip Patel said: “He was able to access the private side of Facebook and steal highly sensitive intellectual property. Private data was not compromised... it was never the intention to compromise customer data.”

But he added: “It was and is the most effective and egregious examples of hacking into a website that has come before a British court.”

Mangham, of York, admitted four hacking charges. He said he aimed to identify weak spots in Facebook’s security.

Mangham was released on bail and will be sentenced on February 17.