Our acquaintance Sabu, ex hacker of LulzSec, and FBI whistleblower was ultimately not convicted. The US District Court for the Southern District New York released him Tuesday when the judge sentenced him to a year of probation.
Sabu, or Hector Xavier Monsegur, had been charged with a total of twelve felonies for his role in the attacks on Sony Pictures, Nintendo's HB Gary, as well as other private companies, news agencies and government agencies during the summer of 2011. If he did not cooperate with the FBI he would have faced up to 26 years in prison.
Judge Loretta Preska, who last year convicted him Jeremy Hammond at ten years in prison for hacking at Stratfor, he said the lenient sentence was the result of Monsegur's "truly special" assistance to authorities since his arrest on June 7, 2011.