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A Developer Pleds Accusable to Hacking His Own Company
Nicholas Sharpe 37 worked as a senior developer for the ubiquity between 2018 and 2021. He took advantage of his authorized access to Ubiquity's network to seal gigabytes worth of files from the company during an orchestrated security breach in December 2020 Prosecutors say that Sharpe used the surf shark VPN service to hide his home IP address and intentionally damaged Ubiquity’s computer systems During the attack in an attempt to conceal his unauthorized activity Sharpe later posed as an anonymous hacker who claimed to be behind the incident while working on an internal team that was in Investigating the security breach. While concealing his identity Sharpe attempted to extort Ubiquity sending a ransom note to the
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