A Disgruntled Ex-Employee At A Singaporean IT Firm Caused Carnage After Deleting Over 180 Servers
ITPro , Wednesday, June 12th, 2024
The staff member was angry about his dismissal and sought to get his own back
A disgruntled ex-employee deleted 180 virtual servers from his company's systems in rage following his dismissal, dealing significant damage to the company.
The company in question, IT firm NCS, suffered damages of $918,000 Singaporean dollars, equivalent to roughly $678,000 US dollars.
The employee, Kandula Nagaraju, has been sentenced to two years and eight months in jail on one count of unauthorized access to computer material, with another charge taken into consideration for sentencing, according to reporting from CNA.
Nagaraju reportedly exploited his prior access to NCS' quality assurance system to carry out the breach. Following his dismissal in 2022, he used administrator login credentials to gain unauthorized access to the system from between January and March 2023.