Feds get guilty plea in Ubiquiti data extortion case

A former employee of the technology company Ubiquiti pleaded guilty on Thursday in a Manhattan federal courtroom on charges related to perpetrating an audacious insider attack on his employer, in which he accessed a trove of confidential data before demanding a ransom. 

Nickolas Sharp, 37, was a senior software engineer at the New York-based company, which specializes in wireless communications. In his role, he was responsible for cloud infrastructure security, as well as software development. 

According to the federal indictment …

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