A US judge sentences Nickolas Sharp, who worked for IoT maker Ubiquiti, to six years in prison, rejecting claims that his data theft made the company safer (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)

A US judge sentences Nickolas Sharp, who worked for IoT maker Ubiquiti, to six years in prison, rejecting claims that his data theft made the company safer (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
A US judge sentences Nickolas Sharp, who worked for IoT maker Ubiquiti, to six years in prison, rejecting claims that his data theft made the company safer  —  An engineer who worked for billionaire Robert Pera’s Ubiquiti Inc. got six years in prison after a judge rejected his claim that his plan …