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Contractor Sentenced for Insider Attack on Brightly Software
A contractor's six-week extortion scheme against Brightly Software ended with a guilty verdict, after he threatened to expose sensitive payroll and personnel records unless he received a whopping $2.5 million - ultimately settling for a significantly smaller sum of $7,540.92. The 27-year-old data analyst had been quietly siphoning off corporate data from the Siemens-owned company's network for months.