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A former quality assurance employee of National Computer Systems was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for reportedly deleting 180 virtual servers after being fired.
Nagaraju Kandula, 39, pleaded guilty to deleting the virtual servers in an attempt to sabotage the firm's systems out of spite for getting fired from NCS, causing damages estimated to $678,0000.
During those events, the man reportedly tested custom scripts for his ability to wipe virtual servers managed by the quality assurance team.
The wiper was executed on March 18-19, deleting 180 virtual servers and causing damages estimated to be $678,000.
After the discovery of the damaging attack and the realization that the deleted servers could not be restored, NCS reported the incident to the police, who, on April 11, 2023, traced the action back to an IP address associated with Kandula.
Eventually, the law enforcement authorities confiscated the man's laptop and found the script used in the attack to wipe the virtual servers.