A former Brightly Software contractor, Cameron Curry, was sentenced to two years in prison for running a $2.5 million extortion scheme after stealing sensitive payroll and corporate data. He threatened to leak employee PII and report Brightly to the SEC, while the company also previously disclosed an unrelated breach affecting nearly 3 million SchoolDude users. #BrightlySoftware #CameronCurry #SchoolDude #SEC #FBI #DOJ
Keypoints
- Cameron Curry was sentenced to two years in prison for extorting Brightly Software.
- He used stolen payroll and corporate data to demand $2.5 million in cryptocurrency.
- Curry emailed Brightly employees under the alias “Loot” after his contract ended.
- He threatened to leak employee PII and report Brightly to the SEC.
- Brightly paid $7,540 in Bitcoin before the FBI seized evidence from Curry’s home.