The U.S. federal agency FBI has arrested a man who is accused of being
involved in the actions of the hacker group LulzSec against computer
systems from Sony Pictures. The 23-year-old man was arrested in Phoenix,
Arizona on Thursday morning. Is against the man at the second September
charges were levied.
The suspect is between 27 May and 2 June as a member of the group
LulzSec under the name "Recursion" in computer systems from Sony
Pictures Entertainment have entered. The accused had used together with
other conspirators, a SQL injection vulnerability, confidential
information stolen and published. The extent of the resulting damage
will still investigating, according to an FBI release .
The accused had set up a proxy server to cover up his tracks during the
attack. After the attack he had erased the hard drive used for the long
term. If the 23-year-old is found guilty by a court, he expected a jail
term of up to 15 years.
The hacker group LulzSec had announced in early June on Twitter known
[2], the site of Sony Pictures have to be compromised. They could
thereby claims to the personal data of more than 1 million users and
administrators to access, including addresses, phone numbers, email
addresses and passwords. Sony had unprotected apparently stored in clear
text. The hacker put tens of thousands of records accessible to anyone
on the Internet.
End of June, LulzSec its resolution known, lay down but even then with
websites of News Corporation. Among the victims of the hackers were out
of Sony, Nintendo, the game developer Bethesda, the U.S. broadcaster Fox
and PBS, the security company and the FBI agent Unveillance company
InfraGard.
The activists of Anonymous and LulzSec between whom the FBI suspects a
connection to be pursued in different countries by the police. In July,
the FBI had reported the arrest of 14 alleged anonymous hackers in the
United States. Also in the Netherlands [6] and Italy, the authorities
struck. In early August the British authorities had a suspected LulzSec
hacker arrested and it subsequently released on bail . Another
anonymous activist who had been arrested in early 2011, is on trial. In
early September, the last case, by then an arrest of a known hacktivists.
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