Snowflake Hacker Pleads Guilty, Faces 32 Years

The report summarizes the guilty plea of Connor Riley Moucka for his role in the 2024 Snowflake breaches, where credential theft (often from infostealer infections) and lack of enforced MFA allowed access to over 165 organizations’ Snowflake accounts, exposing billions of records tied to more than 100 million people and causing over $9.5M in direct losses; sentencing is scheduled for October 27, 2026 and the piece details the attack timeline, prosecution status, and Snowflake’s delayed rollout of mandatory MFA.