A grand jury indicted Sparks with the offenses in November 2016 alongside Connecticut resident Jay Williams. Sparks is the only one facing a sentence, however. as the jury found Williams not guilty on all charges. The engineer is also partly dodging a bullet, as the jury found him not guilty on "multiple counts." Not that Sparks is likely to be thrilled, as each count could entail a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

There's no mention of whether or not Sparks or CRA used the ill-gotten data, but it doesn't appear to have leaked.

This isn't likely to scare away determined thieves, especially those from hostile countries who know they'll face few if any consequences for their actions. It may, however, give would-be domestic crooks reason to hesitate -- or at least, remind them not to use personally-linked cloud storage for their heists.