LulzSec hacker jailed

Raynaldo Rivera, 21, of Tempe, Arizona, has been sentenced to a year in a US jail for hacking Sony Pictures and dumping personal information of 138,000 movie fans online.

After serving 366 days of incarceration, he will be required to spend 13 months of house arrest and 1,000 hours of community service. He was further ordered by US District Judge John Kronstadt to pay $605,663 in compensation to Sony's movie division.

Rivera, known online as "neuron", was sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty. He admitted to compromising Sony's systems in 2011 and leaking the personal information with the help of other LulzSec members. The stolen data included the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of tens of thousands of Sony customers.

The hack was pulled off using a SQL injection attack against the entertainment giants film website.

A Department of Justice statement on Rivera's sentencing can be found here.