Todd Miller, suspected of hacking into Sony’s PlayStation Network, will spend a year on house arrest, but not for hacking. Instead, he was sentenced yesterday in federal court for obstructing a federal investigation because he smashed his computers, halting an FBI investigation into his hacking. The court heard that the accused was part of the hacker group KCUF, which led an attack on the PSN in 2008. The judge said that because Miller had a troubled childhood and now had stability and a full time job, that he could “see no sense” in sentencing him to prison.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2013/05/playstation-hacker-gets-year-of-house.html