Hacker suspected for the Sony Entertainment Network Outage sentenced to house arrest

One to people suspected of helping crash Sony's online game servers worldwide in 2011, Todd M. Miller age 23, has been sentenced in federal court to a year of house arrest for "obstructing a federal investigation because he smashed his computers, halting an FBI investigation into his hacking."

According to U.S. District Judge Peter C. Economus, "Miller was part of the KCUF clan, a group of hackers who organized an attack on Sony's computer servers in San Diego in 2008 and beyond. After the FBI interviewed Miller in 2011, they returned with a search warrant and found that his hard drives were missing and he had smashed his computers." With a lack of evidence, the FBI couldn't convict Miller of the hacking charges.

Miller could've been sentenced to prison and fined $250,000, but instead, the judge sentenced him to 3 years of probation and ordered him to get his high-school equivalence certificate.