LulzSec's 'Sabu' has sentencing postponed but could face 124 years
US prosecutors have postponed the sentencing of "Sabu" - real name Hector Xavier Monsegur – who led the LulzSec hacking crew during the summer of 2011 while working as a double agent for the FBI.
Monsegur was due to appear at a Manhattan federal court on Friday for sentencing on ten counts of hacking, one of bank fraud, and one of identity theft, which together carried a maximum penalty of 124 years.
But the sentencing was put off without explanation – though Monsegur had been expected to be given only a suspended sentence after having pleaded guilty to the charges in August 2011. At the time he was still operational as a member of LulzSec, the group which hacked into sites belonging to the CIA, Serious Organised Crime Agency, Sony Pictures Europe and News International during that summer.
