A Florida woman has been sentenced to 22 months in prison for conspiracy to traffic thousands of stolen Windows 10 and MS Office keys via their Certificate of Authenticity stickers

The US Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida has announced the sentencing of a 52-year-old woman after she was found guilty of "conspiring to traffic in illicit Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity (COA) labels."

Heidi Richards, a resident of Brandon, Florida, was sentenced to 22 months in US federal prison for her part in the scheme, alongside a $50,000 fine.

Richards operated an e-commerce business called Trinity Software Distribution, which the Attorney's Office...