A former student at the College of St. Rose pleaded guilty to a February computer attack that destroyed $51,109 worth of computer and peripheral equipment. The attack vector was the USB port found in all of the computers, monitors, and computer-enhanced podiums hit in the attack. Vishwanath Akuthota, a 27-year-old Indian national, shot video of himself during part of the campaign in which he used a USB killer a USB stick that contains a capacitor that stores electricity then rapidly discharges it into a USB port, damaging or destroying the host computer.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/former-student-admits-to-usb-killer-attack