LulzSec suspect pleads not guilty to Sony Pictures website hack

A 23-year-old man, suspected of being a member of the LulzSec hacking gang, has pleaded not guilty to an attack on the Sony Pictures website.

Cody Kretsinger, from Phoenix, Arizona, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer during a hearing at Los Angeles District Court.

Kretsinger is alleged to be the LulzSec member known as “Recursion”, and is accused of being involved in an SQL injection attack that stole information from Sony Pictures in June, exposing users email addresses and passwords.

Approximately 150,000 confidential records were subsequently published online by LulzSec who mocked Sony’s weak security:

“SonyPictures.com was owned by a very simple SQL injection, one of the most primitive and common vulnerabilities, as we should all know by now. From a single injection, we accessed EVERYTHING. Why…

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