Former LulzSec Member Gets Prison Sentence for Sony Pictures Hack
Cody Andrew Kretsinger, a 25-year-old man from Decatur, Illinois, was sentenced Thursday to one year in federal prison for his role in a May 2011 breach of a Sony Pictures website and database.
At the time of the intrusion Kretsinger, who used the online alias “recursion,” was a member of a hacker group called Lulz Security, or LulzSec, that went on a hacking spree during the first half of 2011. The group was affiliated with the international Anonymous hacktivist collective.
LulzSec took credit for hacking into the Sony Pictures website and leaking customer data stolen from its database on the Internet. The leaked information included names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses.
Kretsinger was arrested in September 2011 and pleaded guilty to computer hacking charges in relation to the Sony Pictures attack in April 2012.
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