Hackers and crackers can be punished harshly for doing any illegal things.  One of those illegal things are hacking and cracking computer systems. Some punishments I would think of are going to jail for life or at least 30 years or a penalty of death for a grown person. For a teenager I would say at least 10 to 20 years in jail. Those are some of the consequences I would think of for a teenager and/or a grown man that hacks or cracks in to computer systems.