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Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh, a former Cisco engineer, was sentenced on Wednesday 9/12/2020 to two years in prison and a $ 15.000 fine for closing more than 16.000 WebEx Teams accounts and more than 450 virtual machines in 2018.
The 30-year-old had access without permission, on Cisco's cloud infrastructure hosted at Amazon Web Services and joined it on September 24, 2018, five months after he resigned from the company.
According to a press release from the US Department of Justice during his unauthorized access, he deployed one code which resulted in the deletion of 456 virtual machines for Cisco's WebEx Teams application, which provides video meetings, video messaging, file sharing and other collaboration tools.
As a direct result of his activity, more than 16.000 WebEx Teams accounts were suspended for approximately two weeks, requiring Cisco to spend approximately $2.400.000 in refunds and employee time to restore damages caused by Ramesh. However, no customer data was compromised due to his malicious behavior.
Ramesh acknowledged his reckless actions in his apology and said he had deliberately ignored the significant risk and damage that deleting virtual machines from Cisco systems would cause.
Ramesh was sentenced to 24 months in prison after he was found guilty of intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization. He was further sentenced to pay a $ 15.000 fine and serve a year under supervision after his release from prison. In addition, Ramesh faces deportation to his native India after his conviction.
