Teen pleads guilty of crashing Sony’s PlayStation website

Here’s one for the PlayStation Web’s history. In 2008, a teenager was caught using a cheat mod in SOCOM U.S. Navy Seals, and so was consequently kicked out of the tourney. As an act of revenge, he crashed the PlayStation website for a full 11 days by hacking into the site’s servers and sending a virus out. Now, the Latrobe, Pa. high school honors student  has pled guilty to four felony charge. *clap! clap*

Here’s one for the PlayStation Web’s history. In 2008, a teenager was caught using a cheat mod in SOCOM U.S. Navy Seals, and so was consequently kicked out of the tourney. As an act of revenge, he crashed the PlayStation website for a full 11 days by hacking into the site’s servers and sending a virus out.

Props to the kid, but unfortunately, Sony caught him and dragged his sorry ass to juvie court. Now, the Latrobe, Pa. high school honors student  has pled guilty to four felony charges: unlawful use of a computer, criminal use of a computer, computer trespassing and the distribution of a computer virus.

Actually, this guilty plea is part of his bargain he agreed to, which essentially let him off 11 other cases, some of which were related to a March 2009 cyber attack.

He has yet to be sentenced; it will be coming out later this year. In the meantime, however, Westmoreland County Judge John Driscoll has allowed the boy to return to his parents’ home, and also to go back to attending school.

Via [The Pittsburgh Channel]