Here's what we know about the suspected Snowflake data extortionists

Two men allegedly compromised what's believed to be multiple organizations' Snowflake-hosted cloud environments, stole sensitive data within, and extorted at least $2.5 million from at least three victims. On Sunday, the United States unsealed an indictment against Connor Riley Moucka, who lives in Canada, and John Erin Binns …

[O'Reg Inalsin]

1st offence max 10 yrs, 2nd 20

Seems like like not enough.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: 1st offence max 10 yrs, 2nd 20

Yeah, they ran out of letters when listing the Overt Acts in Count 1: Conspiracy, for Victim-1 to Victim-6, going through a-z, and then aa to dd ... these two might have to be made into dissuasive examples for the rest of the cyberextortionists.

[IGotOut]

Re: 1st offence max 10 yrs, 2nd 20

For the directors of the companies that put profit and growth over customers? I totally agree.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: 1st offence max 10 yrs, 2nd 20

Wow! Just imagine combining some info stealer and MS Recall on the same machine ... ouch!

[collinsl]

Re: 1st offence max 10 yrs, 2nd 20

But is that consecutive per-charge or concurrent? Or is that up to the Judge?

article > ...in a Turkish Prison

And whilst I'm asking questions, you ever been in a cockpit before?