Microsoft’s Youngest Employee: Jake, a 14-Year-Old Hacker

Microsoft first thought that the hack was part of the same attack on the PlayStation Network that was launched following Sony's decision to take the young hacker George Hotz to court. Like Anonymous' decision to bring down the Visa and Mastercard websites in response to the cold shoulder they gave WikiLeaks, The PlayStation hack was the latest in a string of attacks made in retaliation for an action and not, as so many others are, simply for the lulz.

After discovering that the hack wasn't related to the Sony problem, Microsoft issued an alert. The news made the rounds on hacking portals and some alternative weeklies, but went largely unnoticed in the mainstream press; it was overshadowed by the PlayStation network outage. Business Insider calls attention to Jake, though, in a new gallery of "young troublemakers" who received job offers after hacking into Facebook, Apple and the websites of other big-name companies.