One of the e-commerce giant's high-level security pros is accused of using his hacking talents for evil. Reading time 2 minutes A former cybersecurity pro for Amazon appears to be in deep trouble.

Former Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed was sentenced to three years in prison for hacking two cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022 and stealing over $12 million. Ahmed was also sentenced to ...

Former Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed pleaded guilty this week to hacking and stealing over $12.3 million from two cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022. The two affected companies are Nirvana ...

Prosecutors, who previously described the arrest as the first related to an attack on a smart contract, asked U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero to impose a sentence of four years in prison. U.S.

Shakeeb Ahmed — an ex-Amazon security engineer who admitted to stealing over $12.3M from two cryptocurrency exchanges using exploits — has been sentenced to three years in prison, will forfeit the ...

An ex-Amazon engineer pleaded guilty this week to hacking two cryptocurrency exchanges. The conviction is the first ever secured in a case involving the hacking of a smart contract. He'll face up to ...

U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero of the Southern District of New York on Friday sentenced former Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed to three years in prison in connection with a cryptocurrency ...

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An Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineer last week inadvertently made public almost a gigabyte’s worth of sensitive data, including their own personal documents as well as passwords and cryptographic ...