Indian-origin techie jailed for sending malware in US

Nikhil Nilesh Shah, of New Jersey, was sentenced to 30 months in prison by US District Judge Louise Flanagan in North Carolina and ordered to pay USD 324,462 in restitution.

Written by: Press Trust of India

Published: February 24, 2016, 5:02 PM IST

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New York, February 24:  A 33-year-old Indian-origin techie has been sentenced to more than two years in jail and ordered to pay over USD 300,000 in fine for sending a malware to his former employer’s servers that caused financial losses.

Nikhil Nilesh Shah, of New Jersey, was sentenced to 30 months in prison by US District Judge Louise Flanagan in North Carolina and ordered to pay USD 324,462 in restitution.

According to the plea agreement, from 2007 to 2012, Shah was an information technology manager at a company in North Carolina that developed platforms for the creation of mobile applications.(ALSO READ: Indian-origin man jailed for beating his Filipino maid).

Shah admitted that in March 2012, he left the company to work for another technology firm and in June that year he sent malicious computer code to his former company’s computer servers in Durham and Raleigh, North Carolina, deleting much of its intellectual property.