Alleged Hacker in Sonylaptop Break-In Pleads Not Guility

Los Angeles - An alleged member of a laptop hacking cluster pleaded not guilty these days to federal charges of hacking into Sony footage Entertainment's system.

Cody Kretsinger, 23, entered his pleas in l.  a.   federal court to one count each of conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected laptop.

U.S. Magistrate opt for Victor Kenton set a Dec. 13 trial date for Kretsinger. If convicted of every charges, the Phoenix resident faces a most sentence of fifteen years in federal jail, in line with the U.S. Attorney's workplace.

According to an indictment unsealed late last month , Culver City-based Sony's laptop system was hacked from may twenty seven through June 2 by a gaggle noted as LulzSec, or Lulz Security, whose members anonymously claimed responsibility on the group's net website.



Kretsinger, allegedly conjointly known by the moniker "recursion," is believed to be a current or former member of the cluster.

The extent of damage caused by the breach at Sony is beneath investigation, in line with Steven Martinez, assistant director accountable of the FBI's l.  a.   field workplace.

The indictment accuses Kretsinger and co-conspirators of stealing confidential knowledge from Sony Pictures' laptop systems and distributing the material on LulzSec's net website before trumpeting the attack on Twitter.

LulzSec is known for its affiliation with the international hacking collective noted as Anonymous, that conducts cyber attacks and disseminates knowledge stolen from folks and companies looked as if it might be hostile to its interests, officers said.

In the recent past, LulzSec has been linked to the hacking, or tried hacking, of numerous targets, further as varied websites that represent governmental or business entities.