Canadian pleads guilty to Snowflake cloud data-theft attacks

BleepingComputer by Ionut Ilascu 6 August 2026, 00:53 EEST

A Canadian man pleaded guilty today to his role in accessing company accounts at cloud storage provider Snowflake and stealing data from at least 165 organizations in a scheme to extort millions of dollars from victims.

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