An update:
Security Week:
Hacker Gets 30 Months for Trying to "Hack" His Way Into a Job With Marriott
By Mike Lennon on February 04, 2012
Two short quotes:
[Attila Nemeth] who tried to land an IT job at Marriott by hacking into the company’s computer systems and then unwisely extorting the company into hiring him, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison.
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Nemeth was facing up to 10 years in prison for the transmission of the malicious code and up to 5 years in prison for threatening to expose confidential and proprietary information, so the sentence he recieved was significantly less than he could have been slapped with.