LulzSec hacker gets 1 year in prison for Sony breach

Cody "Recursion" Kretsinger, a LulzSec hacker who pleaded guilty to conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer will spend the next year in prison, followed by home detention, and 1000 hours of community service as was handed down by a federal judge today in Los Angeles CA.


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Reuters says that during last year's plea hearing, Kretsinger told a federal judge that he gained access to the Sony Pictures website and gave the information he found there to other members of LulzSec, who posted it on the group's website and Twitter.

Prosecutors said Kretsinger and other LulzSec hackers ultimately caused the unit of Sony Corp more than $600,000 in damages.

Other members of the Anonymous splinter group are set to be sentenced May 14th at Southwark Crown Court in London, and judging by the fact that they all faced up to 10 years in prison the news of this sentence has to be a little hopeful to those not yet sentenced.