New developments on Sony's court battle with George Hotz, more (in)famously known as GeoHot, has now come to Sony turning on the hacker's PayPal records.

Reportedly, the console maker has now bee granted the permission to acquire "documents sufficient to identify the source of funds in California that went into any PayPal account associated with This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for the period of January 1, 2009, to February 1, 2011."

This was the ruling of federal magistrate Joseph Spero handed down Tueday in San Francisco. Previously, the court had also granted Sony permission to seize GeoHot's hard drives, as well as the IP addresses of those who visited his site, so that Sony may prove that most of the visitors were from North California, thereby settling the issue of jurisdiction.

The 21-year-old hacker has maintained that he did not accept monetary donations from anyone through his PayPal account so that he may pursue his hacking exploits.

Sony has also previously threatened to sue any one who posts or shares to the public further the hacking tools or encryption key from GeoHot. 

Interestingly enough, proving that George Hot received monetary donations as a form of support for him to pursue the PS3's hack is an unnecessary burden on the part of Sony as it is not required by law. 






Via [Wired]

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