What kind of penalty would my sister face for hacking?

[brian 2010]

I heard about my sister hacking into her husband's Facebook and Gmail accounts all the time to snoop on him. She often does this to see if he's cheating on her. What would be the punishment she would get for her actions? How severe is the penalty for hacking?
Both of them have their own individual laptops, by the way.

[Lynn]

Hacking is jail time in a federal facility. And don't think just the ones who go for big corps. or the Pentagon. We lost a local anchorman, because he hacked into a reporter's computer. He got six month.

[Will]

if she knows his password, then nothing

[Needful Sinner]

"What kind of penalty would my sister face for hacking?"

Legally, not much of a penalty. It the guys wife, they live together, likely share computers... tough to prove someone needed to 'hack' into a computer that is shared, or in a home that two people share.
I'm not saying she doesn't, i'm saying it's a tough thing to prove - beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. What penalty is any judge going to give a wife for logging onto her husbands Facebook, precious little.

Besides there are stiffer penalties she faces than anything a court can impose... the husband finding out and the marriage going south over either a lack of trust, or deceit on her part.

[Mali Mal]

He would have to catch her then decide to press charges if he could even prove it. If it went this far, which I highly doubt. It would be a misdemeanor at worst!