The Singaporean court has sentenced Kandula Nagaraju, the Quality Assurance (QA) officer of NCS, an IT service provider in Singapore, to prison. This comes after Kandula logged into the system to delete the company’s virtual machines, resulting in the deletion of up to 180 maliciously removed machines.
Kandula has been working with NCS since the end of 2021 until the end of 2022. When the company did not renew his contract, Kandula was disappointed as he believed he had performed well. Subsequently, Kandula returned to India but still retained access to NCS system passwords. He attempted to log in multiple times before returning to work in Singapore in March 2023. He scripted the deletion of NCS servers, accessing a total of 180 machines.
The NCS team later discovered the system issues after attempting to resolve them, only to find that the servers had been entirely wiped out. The estimated damage amounted to nearly a million dollars in Singapore.
NCS’s QA system did not have any backup data as they only used it for program testing before deployment, resulting in significant losses due to the cyber-attack.
The court ruled a sentence of 2 years and 6 months imprisonment for unauthorized computer system access, with additional charges pending.
Source: Channel News Asia
TLDR: Kandula Nagaraju, a QA officer at NCS Singapore, sentenced to prison for deleting 180 virtual machines, causing almost a million dollars in damages.
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