FBI makes arrest in The new sony hacking situation

The FBI arrested a Phoenix guy on Thursday suspected of hacking in to the personal computers at The new sony Pictures Entertainment.Cody Kretsinger, 23, of Phoenix, is charged with joining the LulzSec hacking group that stated credit for hacking in to the The new sony personal computers from May 27 to June 2. Kretsinger is famous through the moniker "recursion." A great jury indicted him on Sept. 2 on charges of conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of the protected computer, however it was stored under seal until his arrest.The FBI alleges that Kretsinger completed the attack by delivering a proxy server to mask his Ip. He along with other cyber-terrorist acquired private information from The new sony computer systems utilizing an "SQL injection" attack against its website, which is often used by cyber-terrorist to get on the computer system's weaknesses. At that time, LulzSec, associated with the worldwide cyber-terrorist referred to as Anonymous, boasted about how exactly easy it had been to interrupt in to the The new sony system.The FBI also claims that Kretsinger yet others published the stolen information on the LulzSec website, after which introduced it on Twitter.Kretsinger ended up being to make his first court appearance in Phoenix on Thursday, however the FBI intends to request he be gone to live in La. If charged, he faces as much as fifteen years imprisonment. Contact Ted Manley at ted.manley@variety.com