Second accused LulzSec hacker arrested in US
Summary: A second member of the LulzSec hacking group has been arrested on charges over Sony's computer breach last year.
An alleged second member of the LulzSec hacking group, Raynaldo Rivera, has been arrested on charges over Sony's computer breach which took place last year.
The FBI arrested the twenty year-old on Tuesday. Based in Tempe, Arizona, the alleged member of the hacking group LulzSec surrendered to authorities six days after a federal grand jury in Los Angeles issued an indictment. He is being charged with conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer.
According to the charge, Rivera worked with Cody Kretsinger, who pleaded guilty to hacking charges in April after being arrested last year. Kretsinger is due to be sentenced in October.
Both men have been hunted by authorities in connection to the hacking group posting statements online in June last year, which said it had broken into SonyPictures.com and stolen over 1 million user accounts on the PlayStation network. LulzSec gained access to data including passwords, email addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth from those who had entered competitions hosted by Sony.
The company was forced to close the network in both the U.S. and Europe for roughly six weeks after the security breach.
The data was gained through an SQL injection, which tricks a server into handing over restricted information. At the time of the breach, Lulzsec members wrote "Why do you put such faith in a company that allows itself to become open to these simple attacks?".
The indictment says that after the break-in occurred, Rivera was part of a team that posted the data onto LulzSec's website and then announced the attack through the group's Twitter account.
According to federal authorities, Rivera apparently used names including "royal" and "wildicv" and set up a proxy server to try and remain anonymous.
Rivera is now being held in custody in Phoenix. If convicted, he could face up to 15 years in prison.
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Hacking Sony
Art12
Jail time
lulzSec
Yeah, I'm torn
Police cars sit parked when not in use, should the police be blamed when someone slashes the tires? After all, they did leave the cars out in the open...well behind a fence with concertina wire, but still, its the same thing.
What happened to....
I guess the real message is that if you bother anyone associated with the RIAA or the MPAA, you're going down heavily.
Let me also say that this doesn't mean I condone LulzSec. I don't. Instead of making Sony pay, they hurt the users--fellow users. They weren't out to punish Sony, they were saying "nah nah, we know more about this system than you do. Stupid gamers" in a better than you attempt at ultimate pwning.
Had they simply gone after Sony and called it good, I'd try to do more with petitions for judicial leniency on social awareness sites like MoveOn.org. But ...... well, as a computer user who had multiple friends that were affected and never once harmed Lulz's members, I have better things to do with my time.
Not that I care but a few friends were pissed!
FREE THE LULSEC CREW! AND LET THE'RE BOAT SAIL PROUDLY.
FREE THE LULSEC CREW! AND LET THE'RE BOAT SAIL PROUDLY.
hacking sony was not a
thats my opinion, i could be wrong......
Its okay then
I'm curious though, just which Politicians and Government entities had their backsides exposed by hacking Sony's customer database?
Also, just WHO gets to decide when hacking, exposing, sharing, and selling hacked information is, well, is okay?
Wouldn't that be the same of your computer, your mom's computer, anyone's personal computer being compromised? You need to have better security since if I can hack your computer, steel your information this clearly demonstrates that you need to be taught a lesson, right?
Ecuador, now why wasn't he thinking Ecuador