Ex-Ubiquiti dev jailed for 6 years after stealing internal corp data, extorting bosses

Nickolas Sharp has been sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to pay almost $1.6 million to his now-former employer Ubiquiti – after stealing gigabytes of corporate data from the biz and then trying to extort almost $2 million from his bosses while posing as an anonymous hacker. In February, Sharp, 37, pleaded guilty to …

[VoiceOfTruth]

He deserves going to the slammer

I have a really low opinion of 'hackers' who slurp stuff from the companies they work for. Protecting against such people is no easy task as somewhere along the line there has to be an element of trust. Even with systems auditing, somebody has to be trusted. This dude is a turd.

[ChoHag]

Re: He deserves going to the slammer

> Protecting against such people is no easy task

Don't give developers root.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: He deserves going to the slammer

100% agree

I’ve worked in the information technology space for a couple of decades now and my trustworthiness is paramount to my activities at work. At times we literally have the keys to the kingdom.

Trust is hard to earn, and can be lost in an instant.

If I have a gripe with my employer, I leave and find work elsewhere, I certainly don’t commit fraud against them.

I really hate deceit, I hate it with all my energy

[Zbig]

Not so Sharp after all, eh?

The required post, now with letters.

[CowHorseFrog]

Given the penalties here, how did Boeing leadership not get jail time for what they did which costed hundreds of lives ?

[anothercynic]

"Ubi-who"? vs "Boeing!"

[Anonymous Coward]

Lobbyists and PR turds, that’s how

[TheInstigator]

Sharp - is that a Chinese, Russian, Syrian, North Korean surname?

Asking for a friend