A former IT contractor has been sentenced to two years in prison after hacking into a company s server and deleting the majority of its employees Microsoft Office 365 accounts. The incident resulted in the company completely shutting down for two days. The maximum penalty for the crime for which which Kher was convicted ( intentional damage to a protected computer ) is 10 years in jail. A former engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) who worked with the company has been convicted of a similar incident in Canada.
Source: https://threatpost.com/office-365-cyberattack-disgruntled-contractor-jail/164986/