Friday, September 23, 2011

Yet, He's One of Those Students Who Can Never Figure Out How to Attach a Rough Draft to An Email.

Student charged in Sony Pictures data breach

Authorities say the investigation is ongoing and there may be other charges because the accused had help from co-conspirators.
An Arizona college student was arrested and charged Thursday in a breach of computers at Sony Pictures Entertainment early this summer where more than 37,000 customers had their information stolen.

An indictment unsealed in Los Angeles charged Cody Kretsinger, 23, of Tempe, Ariz., with one count each of conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer. If convicted of both counts, he faces up to 15 years in prison.

Kretsinger is the first person arrested in the U.S. who is a current or former member of LulzSec, which has been linked to other hacking scandals involving various government and business entities across the world, authorities said.

Kretsinger, known by the moniker "recursion," grabbed confidential information from Sony and passed it along to other members of LulzSec, who posted the stolen material on its website, according to the indictment.

1 comment:

  1. StrelnikovSeptember 23, 2011 at 4:21 PM

    I consider this revenge for Japanese whaling, or maybe the destruction of the American electronics industry.

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