2011 was not a good year for Sony. During that time, the PlayStation Network was famously hacked which resulted in Sony shutting down the service for over a month. A few months later, Sony Pictures would eventually be hacked with nearly 1 million accounts compromised. Behind the attack was a member of the hacker group LulzSec. The attack was supposedly carried out by SQL injection which is deemed to be a very low level, lower security operation. Sony, in conjunction with the FBI, would eventually arrest and convict one of the hackers and now a US district judge in Los Angeles has given a guilty verdict.

Cody Kretsinger, 25, who was accused of the hacking, has been given a year and one day sentence in prison. After serving his time behind bars, Kretsinger will serve an additional year of home detention and conduct 1,000 hours of community service. To top it all off, he has also been ordered to pay $600,000 (£390,000) in damages to Sony Pictures.

Cody Kretsinger, better known as Recursion, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and unauthorised impairment of a protected computer.

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