Sony has won the right to subpoena the PayPal account of George Hotz, better known as GeoHot, the PlayStation 3 hacker.
The order came two weeks after a judge in San Francisco granted Sony the right to acquire the IP addresses of anyone who had visited his website from January of 2009 onward, a ruling that raised privacy concerns. Sony also won subpoenas for data from YouTube, Google and the Twitter account linked to Hotz, which goes by @GeoHot.
The 21-year-old from New Jersey was the first to jailbreak Sony's PlayStation 3 platform and is accused of breaching the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other laws after he published an encryption key and software tools to allow other PS3 owners to jailbreak their consoles. The release has caused no small amount of pain for Sony, which has had to deal with the fallout of hackers ruining the online experience in most of the platform's competitive games.
Sony accuses George Hotz of receiving funds and donations to jailbreak the device.
Source: Wired.com