A composite photo of the NCS company building and former employee Kandula Nagaraju leaving the State Courts on May 13, 2024. SINGAPORE: A"human oversight" enabled a former NCS employee to enter its computer system even after he was fired, as his access was not immediately terminated, the infotech company told CNA on Wednesday .Upset about being fired, he accessed the company's computer system multiple times using the administrator login credentials.
"Due to a human oversight in administering the standalone test environment, the perpetrator’s access to the test environment wasn’t terminated immediately upon departure from the company," said NCS.Kandula was part of a 20-member team managing the QA computer system at NCS between November 2021 and October 2022.His contract with NCS was terminated in October 2022 due to poor work performance and his official last date of employment was Nov 16, 2022.
In February that year, Kandula returned to Singapore after finding a new job. He rented a room with a former NCS colleague and used his Wi-Fi network to access NCS' system once on Feb 23, 2023. Kandula's laptop was seized by the police in April and the script used to carry out the deletions was found on it.