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What he did was brazen and stupid but 4 years sounds a bit excessive. Unless the journalist is under reporting what happened, he didn't do any long-term damage just probably knocked them offline for a day and required somebody to come in and manually reset the drsm account in the domain controller.
But in a fit of rage and passion he built out booby traps and put his name all over everything. He wanted them to know it was him, How do you absolutely denied himself plausible deniability.
All he had to do was pretend he was inept and replace service accounts with his own login. Push 90-day password resets on the account for 'security'. Set up a house of cards out of security certificates.
The company probably walked into that court with a technically competent team of lawyers and a bunch of expert testimony, he probably had a state defender.