Cody Andrew Kretsinger, a 23 year old from Phoenix, Arizona (USA) is now facing 15 years in prison, after being arrested by the FBI, an alleged member of malicious hacker group LulzSec in which he used the moniker “recursion”, he is believed to be involved in the hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment servers using a SQL injection to obtain confidential information and post it on the Internet, British based Hide My Ass VPN handed over his home IP on receiving a court order, according to the indictment Cody Kretsinger Hide My Ass VPN username was “recursion”, the same nickname he used in the hacking group, allegedly he also completely wiped clean his computer hard disk after hacking Sony Pictures.
On a side note, Lulzsec have been ALLEGEDLY been responsible for a number of high profile cases such as:
The hacking of the Sony Playstation network which compromised the names, passwords, e-mail addresses, home addresses and dates of birth of thousands of people.
The DDOS attack which knocked the British governments SOCA (Serious Organised Crime Agency) and other government websites offline.
The release of various sensitive and confidential information from companies such as AT&T, Viacom, Disney, EMI, NBC Universal, and AOL.
Gaining access to NATO servers and releasing documents regarding the communication and information services (CIS) in Kosovo.
The defacement of British newspaper websites The Sun & The Times.
The hacking of 77 law enforcement sheriff websites.
All VPNs keep connection logs :
Anyone believing a VPN can be used for criminal activities and get away with it, is living in cuckoo land, all VPNs keep logs, if they didn’t they would not be in business for long time, law enforcement or their dedicated server provider would shut down their business, you need to cover your ass and so do VPN companies, legally VPNs do not have to keep any logs but if a VPN is continuously used to commit crimes and they do not take any action to stop it they could be the ones facing court.
HMA VPN Indictment Lulzsec :
It is a common misconception that when a VPN claims “we do not keep logs” people assume they can not be tracked down, many users do not realize that there is no need for a VPN to know what sites they visit to track them down, all a VPN needs to protect their own ass is to know the user’s connection and disconnection time, for example if user A has been using IP 1.2.3.4 on Monday 25th Sept. at midnight and a company or LEA claims that IP 1.2.3.4 was used to carry out an illegal action on Monday 25th at midnight, all that the VPN needs to do is to look up who was using the IP at the time, the logs detailing the user bad deeds can be taken by the company owning the server where the hacking/posting occurred.
On a side note, Lulzsec have been ALLEGEDLY been responsible for a number of high profile cases such as:
The hacking of the Sony Playstation network which compromised the names, passwords, e-mail addresses, home addresses and dates of birth of thousands of people.
The DDOS attack which knocked the British governments SOCA (Serious Organised Crime Agency) and other government websites offline.
The release of various sensitive and confidential information from companies such as AT&T, Viacom, Disney, EMI, NBC Universal, and AOL.
Gaining access to NATO servers and releasing documents regarding the communication and information services (CIS) in Kosovo.
The defacement of British newspaper websites The Sun & The Times.
The hacking of 77 law enforcement sheriff websites.
All VPNs keep connection logs :
Anyone believing a VPN can be used for criminal activities and get away with it, is living in cuckoo land, all VPNs keep logs, if they didn’t they would not be in business for long time, law enforcement or their dedicated server provider would shut down their business, you need to cover your ass and so do VPN companies, legally VPNs do not have to keep any logs but if a VPN is continuously used to commit crimes and they do not take any action to stop it they could be the ones facing court.
HMA VPN Indictment Lulzsec :
It is a common misconception that when a VPN claims “we do not keep logs” people assume they can not be tracked down, many users do not realize that there is no need for a VPN to know what sites they visit to track them down, all a VPN needs to protect their own ass is to know the user’s connection and disconnection time, for example if user A has been using IP 1.2.3.4 on Monday 25th Sept. at midnight and a company or LEA claims that IP 1.2.3.4 was used to carry out an illegal action on Monday 25th at midnight, all that the VPN needs to do is to look up who was using the IP at the time, the logs detailing the user bad deeds can be taken by the company owning the server where the hacking/posting occurred.
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