Fired employee hacked into company’s computer system and deleted servers, causing it to lose S$918,000

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

The 39-year-old man, who was"confused and upset" after being fired, deleted 180 virtual servers from NCS' computer system.New: You can now listen to articles.SINGAPORE: Upset that he was fired, an employee hacked into his former company’s computer systems and deleted 180 virtual servers, costing them S$918,000 .

According to court documents, Kandula felt"confused and upset" when he was fired as he felt he had performed well and"made good contributions" to NCS during his employment.Between November 2021 and October 2022, Kandula was part of a 20-member team managing the quality assurance computer system at NCS.

During the unauthorised access in those two months, he wrote some computer scripts to test if they could be used on the system to delete the servers. On Apr 11, 2023, a police report was made and several IP addresses uncovered by internal investigations were handed over to the police.

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