An unidentified 17-year old from Latrobe, Pennsylvania has been handed a sentence of 12 months probation, 250 hours of community service with an order to pay Sony Computer Entertainment $5,000 for his successful effort to crash the electronics and gaming titan’s website in November of 2008.

An investigation spearheaded by the FBI led authorities to the minor, who hacked into and crashed the site in an apparent response to being kicked off the PSN a number of times for cheating while playing SOCOM U.S. Navy Seals. He reportedly used hacking tools to gain access to infected computers around the globe and ended up clogging a trio of games on the PlayStation site, causing it to go down.

Sony originally sought around $33,000 from the boy, but Judge John Driscoll ruled that the amount would be “too excessive”, citing that the teen “seems to have accepted personal responsibility and agrees he should be held accountable.”

[Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]