A former Twitter employee was sentenced to three and a half years in a US federal prison after being convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia, the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California said.
45-year-old Ahmad Abouammo was found guilty of sharing confidential information about Twitter users with Saudi officials, and receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange, the attorney's office said.
Prosecutors originally wanted to sentence him for over seven years "to deter others in the technology and social media industry from selling out the data of vulnerable users," according to Reuters.
"This case revealed that foreign governments will bribe insiders to obtain the user information that is collected and stored by our Silicon Valley social media companies," said U.S. Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds.
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