Former Ubiquiti Employee Who Posed as Hacker Pleads Guilty

Former Ubiquiti employee Nickolas Sharp has admitted in court to abusing company-provided credentials to steal data and then attempting to extort the company, the Department of Justice announced.Sharp, 37, of Portland, Oregon, worked at the New York City-based IoT device maker between August 2018 and April 2021, as a senior developer who had access credentials for Ubiquiti’s AWS and GitHub servers.In December 2020, he abused his administrative credentials to download confidential data usin