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Banned
A 23-year-old man suspected of helping to hack into Sony's PlayStation Network got out of being penalized for the crime by smashing his computers and making his hard drives disappear.
Todd M. Miller, of Columbus, in the US state of Ohio, was sentenced on Thursday to a year on house arrest for obstructing a federal investigation and stymying an FBI investigation into the hack.
The FBI initially interviewed Miller in 2011.
When they came back with a search warrant, they found that his hard drives were nowhere to be found and that Miller had smashed his computers.
Without the computers, the FBI didn't have enough to prosecute Miller or another unnamed Columbus man on the hacking charges.
Were the FBI to have gotten its hands on the hard drives, Miller would have been facing up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/05/13/sony-hacking-suspect/