A member of hackersgroepering LulzSec is in the American state of California lwa sentenced to years in prison because he was complicit to the attacks on the website of Sony Pictures in June 2011. He was a few months after the attack was arrested by the FBI.
The now 24-year-old Cody Kretsinger went online hide behind the name ‘recursion’. He was in september, 2011, arrested and put in april last year, a confession, therein he admitted to be complicit in the hacks. Several LulzSec members gave before also has to be guilty of the attacks. Kretsinger has been sentenced to house arrest following his prison sentence and a community service of a thousand hours.
The LulzSec hackers managed via a sql-injection to access the database of Sony Pictures. In total, 75.000 muziekcodes and 3.5 million muziekbonnen captured. In addition, seized the hackers information about more than one million accounts, including passwords, addresses, and home addresses.
It was the second time in a short period of time that the hackersgroepering Sony attacked, also showed again, there is no encryption on the data to be applied. This brought Sony in great embarrassment, because the company after the first hack had indicated measures.