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Fired employee deleted servers, causing it to lose S$918,000

The 39-year-old man, who was "confused and upset" after being fired, deleted 180 virtual servers from NCS' computer system.

SINGAPORE: Upset that he was fired, an employee accessed his former company’s computer test systems and deleted 180 virtual servers, costing them about S$918,000 (US$678,000). Kandula Nagaraju, 39, was sentenced to two years and eight months' jail on Monday (Jun 10) for one charge of unauthorised access to computer material. After Kandula's contract was terminated and he arrived back in India, he used his laptop to gain unauthorised access to the system using the administrator login credentials.

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