[AVTizzle]

Key points:

>>Volodymyr Kvashuk, a 25-year-old software developer and Ukrainian citizen who worked for Microsoft from 2016 to 2018, took advantage of a testing program for Microsoft’s online retail sales platform. He made test accounts to obtain “currency stored value” such as Microsoft gift cards and then resold them online.

>>Kvashuk will be sentenced June 1 in U.S District Court and faces up to 20 years in prison.

Ouch.

[anong]

A brilliant mind who wasted his talents blinded by greed. A very sad life.

[jdmichal]

I was amazed that that long list of charges only results in a 20-year maximum.

[anong]

I hope he gets the maximum to teach/deter others to not utilize their position, talents in a wrong way. He lived in a free country, smarter than millions, yet he betrayed the trust of his employer and the country that embraces him. I am an immigrant from Thailand, grateful to the opportunity this country giving me every single minutes.

[econcon]

Why did he not run away to Russia?

[salmon30salmon]

Probably because he is Ukrainian but that is just a wild guess.

[anong]

He dug his own grave