Cody Kretsinger, a hacker affiliated with LulzSec, has been sentenced to a yearlong prison term for his involvement in the hacks waged against Sony in 2011. Upon his release, a US District Judge in Los Angeles has also ordered Kretsinger to home detention and 1,000 hours of community service. Kretsinger — known to fellow LulzSec members as "Recursion" — last year pled guilty to breaching the Sony Pictures site through SQL injection and providing personal customer data to LulzSec. Sony estimates damages caused by the hack to be around $600,000. Charges have also been brought against other members of the notorious group.

Throughout its storied history, Sony has suffered few embarrassments that approach the level of the broad 2011 intrusions. Hackers managed to infiltrate numerous online servers (for PlayStation Network, Sony Online Entertainment, and Sony Pictures Entertainment), exposing weak points in the company's security and stealing data belonging to millions of individuals, making it one of the most significant hacks in history. Miraculously there have been no verified instances of identity theft or credit card fraud stemming from the hacks in the years since. Sony ultimately pledged to bolster its security efforts to better safeguard customer data.

Update: This article originally indicated Kretsinger was involved in a different Sony breach. He took part in the hack against Sony Pictures Entertainment in June 2011.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/18/4239790/playstation-network-hacker-cody-kretsinger-sentenced-year-prison

for how long is he sentenced?

1 miserable year!

eh he deserves it. 1 year sounds good enough if you ask me

I don't think jail is the answer, most of the worlds jail systems are over crowded and it's the taxpayer (Aka, the people.) who pay to feed them, clothe them, provide them with electricity, water and other necessities.
It's not like he actually hurt anyone, why should the people continue to pay for his crime? Leave the jail system up for serious crimes against humanity, not for illegal downloading or hacking a gaming network.

I think the punishment should fit the crime, say... 10 years without computer/internet access sounds good? Plus a hefty fine on top of it wouldn't go astray either.
Sony could also take a page out of Microsoft, Apple and Google's book and hire him to bolster their own security, hell it's worked for those firms!

i really didnt think of that much, but now that you mentioned it i agree. 

10 years without computer/interent sounds like a really harsh sentence, one that would really teach him a lesson. but it would never work out, they can never moderate him.

hope he rots

i hope he gets the cell with nasty nate! and he gets to relive certain parts of deliverance. squeeeel piggie!

To bad he isn't going to the type of prison most of you think.