AppleInsider:

A 24-year-old Australian has been convicted by a local court of hacking Apple and reportedly posting both employee details, and firmware, to Twitter and GitHub.

In a second case of Apple being hacked in Australia around the same time, 24-year-old Abe Crannaford, has now been convicted and fined US by Eden Local Court after pleading guilty to two counts of unauthorized access to confidential data.

“It may well be that there was no sinister intentions [with the illegal access of data],” Magistrate Doug Dick told Crannaford in court, according to the local Bega District News. “But the bottom line is you knew it was wrong. What you did strikes at the heart of modern society – people rightly worry about their privacy.”

The defense tried to argue that Apple “encouraged” such actions through its bug bounty program but the judge wasn’t having it. As it is, the hacker got off fairly lightly with a fine and probation.