A hacker has broken into Sony's database
The FBI has arrested a 23-year-old hacker who has been investigated for attacks on Sony in recent months.
The acts accuse an Arizona resident of Cody Kretsinger, who is a member of the famous Lulz Security hacker group, among others. He is accused of breaking into Sony Pictures' servers, using exactly an old technique known as SQL injection, which gives the database manager on the server data that he does not identify as information but as an instruction. With this technique, it attacked the company’s servers in the first half of the previous quarter, from which it stole the personal data of roughly 37.500 users.
The hacker was doing college studies anyway, acting under the pseudonym Recursion before the FBI shut him down. His trial will begin in mid-October, exactly on the 11th, in Phoenix. It is not yet known how Kretsinger was arrested, but if the court finds him guilty at every point of the nine-page indictment, a 15-year prison sentence could be imposed. To be sure, a message posted on Twitter by LulzSec claimed that one of the most primitive techniques managed to break into Sony’s system, which is perfectly true for this action as well, so the FBI probably didn’t touch it this time around.
Interestingly, hackers who have stolen data from PlayStation Network and Qriocity, 77 million U.S. and European users, have not been found since then, the largest known attack of its kind.
Source: The Guardian
