A Second suspected member of the LulzSec hacker group was arrested on charges he took part in an extensive computer breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment, the FBI said.
Raynaldo Rivera, 20-year-old, is accused of being involved in hacks on Sony Pictures in May and June last year, in which thousands of personal details were published online.
Rivera, of Tempe, Arizona – who allegedly used the online nicknames of "neuron", "royal" and "wildciv" – surrendered to police in Phoenix six days after a federal grand jury in Los Angeles produced an indictment charging him with conspiracy and unauthorised impairment of a protected computer.
The indictment, unsealed on Tuesday, accuses Rivera and co-conspirators of stealing information from Sony Corp's Sony Pictures' computer systems in May and June 2011 using an "SQL injection" attack against the studio's website, a technique commonly employed by hackers.
The indictment says that after the break-in occurred, Rivera was part of a team that posted the data onto LulzSec's website and then announced the attack through the group's Twitter account.
Rivera is now being held in custody in Phoenix. If convicted, he could face up to 15 years in prison.
Raynaldo Rivera, 20-year-old, is accused of being involved in hacks on Sony Pictures in May and June last year, in which thousands of personal details were published online.
Rivera, of Tempe, Arizona – who allegedly used the online nicknames of "neuron", "royal" and "wildciv" – surrendered to police in Phoenix six days after a federal grand jury in Los Angeles produced an indictment charging him with conspiracy and unauthorised impairment of a protected computer.
The indictment, unsealed on Tuesday, accuses Rivera and co-conspirators of stealing information from Sony Corp's Sony Pictures' computer systems in May and June 2011 using an "SQL injection" attack against the studio's website, a technique commonly employed by hackers.
The indictment says that after the break-in occurred, Rivera was part of a team that posted the data onto LulzSec's website and then announced the attack through the group's Twitter account.
Rivera is now being held in custody in Phoenix. If convicted, he could face up to 15 years in prison.