LulzSec Hacker Gets A Year For Sony Hack

A former LulzSec hacker has been jailed for a year for ransacking Sony Pictures Entertainment’s computer systems. Cody Kretsinger, 25, from Decatur, Illinois – better known to his fellow LulzSec cohorts as “Recursion” – was also ordered to carry out 1,000 hours of community service, and a year of home detention, following his release from prison. He was sentenced by a Los Angeles court on Thursday, Reuters reports. Kretsinger had pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer (i....

April 20, 2013 · 2 min · 317 words