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Restitution Breakdown (USD Millions)
Total court-ordered restitution for the L3Harris data theft case.
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Trenchant Exec Who Sold Zero Days to Russian Buyer Ordered to Pay $10 ...
Peter Joseph Williams, the former L3 Trenchant executive recently convicted of stealing zero-day exploits from his employer and selling them to a Russian broker, has been ordered to pay $10 million to his former employer and its parent company, according to a new judgment issued by a US district court judge. He had previously been ordered to pay $1.3 million in restitution as part of his plea agreement, bringing his total restitution to $11.3 million.This is considerably less than the $35 million in restitution that prosecutors had sought.Williams had told FBI agents last year when he voluntarily met with them for an interview during their investigation into the theft of the code that he believed that just two of the eight hacking tools he stole from his employer were worth about $35 million – meaning this was potentially the amount of revenue that L3 Trenchant and its parent company L3Harris Technologies lost from the theft of the tools. Prosecutors subsequently used this against Williams in demanding the court set his restitution payments at $35 million.Trenchant and L3Harris provided sealed documents to the court about the damages to their business from the theft and were scheduled to attend a sealed hearing later this month, along with Williams, to make a case for the damages they believed he should pay. But the hearing was canceled this week, and on Wednesday the court filed an amended judgment stipulating his restitution would be $10 million for both companies.Williams, 39 years old and the father of two young children, pleaded guilty last year to stealing eight trade secrets from his employer and selling them individually to a Russian zero-day broker under agreements that would have paid him around $4 million. He was sentenced in February to seven years and three months in prison, with three years of probation after his release. Williams faces likely deportation to his native Australia after release. If you find this article valuable, you can leave a one-time tip to express appreciation to the author. Williams is an Australian national who has lived in the US since July 2023 working out of Trenchant's DC offices on a visa. He had served in the Royal Australian Air Force reserves and had also worked a number of years for the Australian Signals Directorate, an Australian intelligence agency equivalent to the US National Security Agency.After leaving government he went to work for Trenchant, a company that finds zero-day security vulnerabilities in s...
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Australian Cyber-Executive Peter Williams Pleads Guilty to Selling U.S ...
An Australian cybersecurity executive, Peter Joseph Williams, has pleaded guilty in Washington D.C. to stealing and selling trade secrets to a Russian software broker, in a case that U.S. officials say undermined national security and allied defence systems. Prosecutors revealed Williams admitted to the theft of eight trade secrets from two unnamed companies between April 2022 and June 2025 ...
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