A 25-year-old man was placed under probation for 18 months today after a court heard how he used to access people’s internet accounts to download films.

The court was told that Jonathan Cutajar would access a list of the users’ email accounts on his service provider’s website and then guess their password and username based on the fact that many e-mail accounts featured the owners’ names and surnames.

The police started to investigate after customers complained to the service provider.

The court placed the accused under probation after considering that he had admitted the crime, and was a first time offender.

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