Cisco had an inside attack back in 2018 form a Former employee. He was able to
gain unauthorized access to the company's cloud infrastructure. Then he infected
456 virtual machines by deploying a malicious code to them. By doing these an
estimated 16,000 users of Webex could not access their accounts for two weeks.
Cisco had to spend approximately $1.4 million in employee time to audit their
infrastructure and fix the damage. The company also had to pay a total of $1 million
in restitution to affected users. The incident happened in September 2018, but the