GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A 17-year-old honor student from western Pennsylvania has been sentenced to a year on juvenile probation for using a computer virus to crash a Sony Entertainment Corp. gaming Web site.
Westmoreland County Judge John Driscoll on Wednesday also ordered the boy to perform 250 hours of community service and pay $5,000 restitution to Sony. The company wanted more than $33,000, but the judge found that was beyond the boy's ability to pay.
Greensburg police say the boy crippled Sony's PlayStation site for 11 days in November 2008 after he was barred from it for cheating while playing a war game against others online.
The boy lives with his parents and attends Greater Latrobe Senior High School, about 40 miles east of Pittsburgh.
