Dont try this at home: Engineer admits he wiped 456 Cisco WebEx VMs from AWS after leaving the biz, derailed 16,000 Teams accounts

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A former Cisco employee pleaded guilty in a San Jose federal court on Wednesday to unlawfully accessing Switchzilla's Amazon Web Services infrastructure and damaging the networking giant's cloud computing resources.

Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh, who worked at Cisco from July 2016 to April 2018, admitted in a plea agreement with prosecutors that he had deliberately connected to Cisco's AWS-hosted systems without authorization in September 2018 – five months after leaving the manufacturer. He then proceeded to delete virtual machines powering Cisco's WebEx video-conferencing service.

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https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/former_cisco_engineer_aws_webex_teams/

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Why when is new employee want to keep him ? Do they know something we do not. He does not sound like a genius - far from it

Why does race need to be brought into it? stop!

It has a whopping 16000 users?

His Indian friends are probably trying to protect him, but they won't have any luck. He's and id–t and this is a Darwinian moment.

Why would he do this? Was it a mistake?

"According to a court document, Ramesh is in the US on an H-1B visa and has a green card application pending. "Although he and his employer recognize that his guilty plea in this case may have immigration consequences, up to and including deportation"
"Ramesh faces up to five years in the clink and a fine of $250,000 when he is sentenced, an event scheduled for December."

No greencard for Ramesh, he will deported most likely. Yeah, 1 down, 470k heads pending.

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Dont try this at home: Engineer admits he wiped 456 Cisco WebEx VMs from AWS after leaving the biz, derailed 16,000 Teams accounts

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