Cisco didn't seek restitution for $2.4M in restoration and customer service costs 14 Dec 2020 Northern California District Court has handed former Cisco software engineer Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh a two-year prison sentence for deleting 16,000 Webex collaboration accounts. From August 2016 to April 2018, Ramesh was part of Cisco's platform team, focusing on automation, access to data, and logging metrics. This gave him access to servers on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that ran Cisco's Webex Teams application, which customers use for video conferencing, video messaging, and file sharing. The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Ramesh with intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization and recklessly causing damage on July 13, 2020. He pleaded guilty in San Jose, California on August 26.