LulzSec suspect pleads not guilty to Sony Pictures hack

A suspected member of the Lulz Security hacker group has pleaded not guilty before a Los Angeles district court to an attack on the website of Sony Pictures last June, a computer security firm reported late Tuesday. Cody Kretsinger, 23, of Phoenix, Arizona, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer, Sophos reported. "Kretsinger's trial is scheduled to begin on December 13th. If convicted he faces up to 15 years in prison.," it said. Kretsinger, suspected to be the LulzSec member "Recursion," was linked to an SQL injection attack where hackers exposed users email addresses and passwords last June. LulzSec, which has since claimed it is disbanding, published some 150,000 confidential records as it mocked Sony's weak security. Sophos reported prosecutors claim Kretsinger used the HideMyAss.com proxy server website to disguise his IP address while he looked for weaknesses in Sony Pictures' computer systems last May. But HideMyAss.com cooperated with the authorities when a court order was received requesting information. — TJD, GMA News