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2nd Sony Hacker Suspect Arrested: Reuters

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday August 29, 2012 @ 2:30pm PDTTags: hacking, LulzSec, Sony Pictures Entertainment

Sony Pictures EntertainmentA second suspected LulzSec hacker was arrested Tuesday on charges he took part in an extensive computer breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Reuters reports. Raynaldo Rivera, 20, of Tempe, Arizona, surrendered to U.S. authorities in Phoenix six days after a Los Angeles federal grand jury accused him and co-conspirators of stealing information from Sony Pictures’ computer systems in May and June 2011. LulzSec then boasted about the breach and published names, birth dates, addresses, emails, phone numbers and passwords of thousands of people who had entered contests promoted by Sony. An accused British hacker, Ryan Cleary, 20, was indicted by a federal grand jury in June on charges related to LulzSec attacks on media companies including Sony Pictures, Fox Entertainment Group and PBS. The FBI said Rivera’s co-conspirators included Cody Kretsinger, 24, a confessed LulzSec member who pleaded guilty in April to federal charges in the Sony attack. Kretsinger is slated to be sentenced on October 25.

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Brit Indicted For Hacking At Fox, Sony, PBS

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday June 13, 2012 @ 8:52pm PDTTags: Fox Entertainment Group, hacking, LulzSec, PBS, Sony Pictures Entertainment

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted a 20-year-old Brit on charges related to the hacking of computer systems at Fox Entertainment Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment movie and TV studio as well as PBS, Reuters reports. Ryan Cleary … Read More »

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Cablevision Hit By Internet Service Attack

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Wednesday November 30, 2011 @ 3:55pm PSTTags: Broadband Access, Cablevision, hacking

It happened last night, and for about six hours prevented some customers — no word on how many — from being able to use the Web. Cablevision says that it was a Distributed Denial of Service attack, which means that someone flooded its network with communications, causing it to slow down or … Read More »

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Celebrity Hacker: “It Started As Curiosity And It Turned To Just Being Addictive”

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 4:18pm PDTTags: FBI, hacking, Scarlett Johansson

The guy arrested for hacking the emails of Scarlett Johansson and other celebrities admits he knew what he was doing was wrong but once he started and discovered he could do it, he couldn’t stop. “It started … Read More »

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Hacker Who Stole Photos, Info From Scarlett Johansson And Mila Kunis Didn’t Do It For Profit, FBI Says

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday October 12, 2011 @ 8:56pm PDTTags: Christina Aguilera, hacking, Mila Kunis, Phone Hacking, Scarlett Johansson

The hacker who broke into the email accounts of Scarlett Johansson, Christina Aguilera, Mila Kunis and dozens of other celebrities has been identified as an apparently unemployed 35-year-old man living in Jacksonville, Fla., who the FBI said didn’t appear to have done it for money even though several allegedly pilfered … Read More »

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