Security News > 2020 > December > Former Cisco Employee Sentenced to Prison for Webex Hack
2020-12-14 12:24
An Indian national who moved to California on an H1-B work visa was sentenced to 24 months in prison last week for accessing and damaging Cisco's network.
Ramesh is a former Cisco employee, who resigned in April 2018.
During the unauthorized access, which took place on September 24, 2018, Ramesh installed code that eventually resulted in 456 virtual machines for Cisco's Webex Teams application being erased.
Ramesh said the code deployment was a reckless act and admitted to consciously disregarding the substantial risk that the action would result in damage to Cisco.
To restore the damage, Cisco spent roughly $1.4 million in employee time and had to refund in excess of $1 million to affected customers.