Kandula Nagaraju, a 39-year-old Indian national who worked at NCS (National Computer Systems) in Singapore, was given a two-year-eight-month sentence after the courts found him guilty of unauthorized access to computer material. According to CNA, Nagaraju illegally accessed his former employer’s systems for several months after his termination, running scripts that he could use to delete its test servers. After he completed testing, he deployed the scripts overnight, resulting in the complete removal of all 180 company test servers.
NCS is a major IT services firm in South-East Asia and is headquartered in Singapore. It also has a presence across Australia, Hong Kong, China, and India, with over 13,000 employees. Nagaraju worked in the company’s quality assurance computer system, where he and his team used test servers to run apps before they were deployed to customers and end users.
