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Cisco deletion of Webex accounts

Type
Actors
Pub. date
September 1, 2018
Initial access
Impact
Status
Not started
Last edited
Mar 6, 2025 3:31 PM

A former Cisco employee ran a script “that deleted 456 virtual machines that were supporting Cisco's video conferencing software WebEx Teams, actions that resulted in the temporary deletion of more than 16,000 Webex accounts. It took Cisco two weeks to recover the accounts and rebuild its systems, costing the company more than $2.4 million, with $1,400,000 in employee time and $1,000,000 in customer refunds.”

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Last Updated: April 3, 2025