NCSterminatedthe contract of 39-year-old Kandula Nagaraju in October of 2022, reportedly due to subpar job performance.

In early 2023, he devised a plan to get revenge on NCS.

Nagaraju found delete scripts online and tweaked them to run on NCS test servers.

Disgruntled ex-employee deletes 180 test servers, costing company nearly $680,000

According to NCS, the incident cost the company around $678,000 to straighten out.

Fortunately for the business, no sensitive customer or company information was stored on the test servers.

NCS saidhuman oversightwas to blame for Nagaraju’s credentials remaining active after he was served his walking papers.

Nagaraju was sentenced to two years and eight months in jail.

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