Fired Employee Retaliates by Deleting AWS Servers of Former Employer

Who: Voova

# of Accounts Breached:

What was affected: Employer’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts​ and 23 servers.

When it happened: 22 Mar 2019

How it happened: An employee-from-hell has been jailed after he got fired (after a measly four weeks), ripped off a former colleague’s login, steamrolled through his former employer’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts, and torched 23 servers. 
In the days after he got fired, Needham got busy: he used the stolen login credentials to get into the computer account of a former colleague – Andy “Speedy” Gonzalez – and then began fiddling with the account settings. Next, he began deleting Voova’s AWS servers.

Outcome: The company lost big contracts with transport companies as a result. Police say that the wreckage caused an estimated loss of £500,000 (about $700,000 at the time). The company reportedly was never able to claw back the deleted data.