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

Momentary lapse in VPN led to stretch in the cooler, $1.6m bill
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.…