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Another LulzSec Member Arrested
hypnosec writes "Raynaldo Rivera, aged 20, suspected member of LulzSec, has been arrested for his alleged role in the breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment last year. The first suspect, Cody Kretsinger, has already pleaded guilty and was indicted last September according to the FBI. Rivera, who also goes by names 'neuron,' 'royal,' and 'wildicv', surrendered to authorities and he has been charged with conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer. The LulzSec member may be facing 15 years in prison if convicted."
On the member who pleaded guilty: "Kretsinger, who pleaded guilty to the same two charges now facing Rivera, is slated to be sentenced on October 25. A federal prosecutor said he would likely receive substantially less than the 15-year maximum prison term carried by those offenses."
Hopefully with these arrests and others a few months back, the keyboard warriors out there will start to realise that they're not untraceable and can't just do as they damn well please on the internet.
I'm no fan of Sony but I hope this guy is banged up for a long time for stealing all that private data. And before any wannabe heros mod me down you might want to consider that YOUR data could be part of it.
Hmm.. hate to break it to you but there ARE ways to be untraceable.. just like any criminal who gets bored they also get sloppy and hence getting caught.
Raynaldo Rivera, aged 20, suspected member of Lulzsec has been arrested ....
charged with conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer. The Lulzsec member may be facing 15 years in prison if convicted....
accused of hacking Sony Pictureâ(TM)s Web site in June 2011 through use of SQL injection attack and downloading thousands of records containing names, birth dates, addresses, e-mails, phone numbers, and passwords. The hacker after posting all the data onto Pastebin, announced the hack through a tweet.....
"Hey @Sony, you know we're making off with a bunch of your internal stuff right now and you haven't even noticed?"
The hacking collective claimed that they had managed to grab information of more than a million people whereas Sony countered the claims saying that only 37k records were actually stolen.
there is no sense of proportion here, it's not justice. Maybe it is the people, whose records were stolen, that should be outraged, not Sony, Sony as a company should be humble about it and do whatever to mitigate the problem their lack of interest in security may have caused.
But because large corporations like Sony are in bed with large governments, there will be no justice. Sure, send these guys to prison for 15 years because a company is outraged. How about company's clients?
My point is - this is none of government's business, it is up to the market to solve theft crimes. If these guys caused damage to private individuals, private individuals should take them to court (and maybe they should take Sony to court), but this has nothing to do with government, why is government throwing these people to jail?
MY OTHER COMMENTS
Sabu is selling out his former comrades for the lulz.
See, information is free, including information on who his accomplices are.
In the US, generally the maximum penalty for killing someone is death, which I think most agree is more severe than 15 years.
As a matter of course, most people convicted of killing someone else don't get the death penalty, and neither is this man is likely to face 15 years in prison. Those are both the maximum penalty.
Depending on the type of killing, more than 15 years can be the minimum. For example the federal sentencing for 1st degree (premeditated) murder is a minimum of life without parole, maximum of the death penalty. States tend to be similar. For second degree murder it varies, but life sentences are usually allowed. For example you may hear the expression "25 to life". What that means is a life sentence, but with the allowance for parole at 25 years.
The only cases where killing someone starts to have less severe sentences is manslaughter and negligent homicide. These are cases where you caused someone's death, but didn't mean to. Since intent matters in the law, punishments are less severe in cases like that.
Would he be facing the same 15 years if he hacked into Bob's Computer Shack's servers? Or do they consider it more severe because sony has more money and more clients? Is there some equation they use that determines "you stole this much data, so you do this many years in prison" ?
Most of the sentences these days that have to do with computer related crimes seem outrageous.
I'd understand if it got people killed. But what Sony has is banking information. Most banks have mechanisms to mitigate damage ( I used to play a tank in WoW - Dwarf warrior, so gangster) in the case where your money/information is stolen. They will reissue your card, give you new account numbers, whatever it takes. Sony shouldn't have private information like SSNs, so I'm not too sure what everyone is worried about. Unless you're afraid Lulzsec is selling your home address to that kid you kept calling a fgt on COD and he's actually gonna kill you like he was screaming he would.
What should happen is something like this:
Dear Sony Customer,
We left our gaping hole exposed and we lost your data.
Here are the details that you should be worried about and
that you'll need to provide to your bank. Please check your shit.
Sorry we fucked up, keep buying our crap.
Hugs and Kisses,
Sony Entertainment
But it won't, because they want to play the victim. Shit, if Lulzsec got it, some other hacking group probably had it before them and have been buying viagra on your cards for months.
Anyway, there's my daily rant. Windows Sucks, Linux Rules, OPEN SOURCE FOR LIFE!!!