Rajendrasinh Babubhai Makwana, a senior Unix engineer contractor for
Fannie Mae allegedly planted a "logic bomb" right before his contract
with the company was terminated back in October of 2008. The script,
or also referred to as a logic bomb, was set to activate on January
31st, 2009 and wold have completely wiped all of the data on Fannie
Mae's 4,000 servers. Based on reports from the engineers at the
company if the bomb would have went off it could have cost millions of
dollars worth of damages and could have shut the company down for a
week or two.
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Ex Unix Engineer Plants Timebomb in Fannie Mae Server
Posted on Saturday, January 31 2009 @ 4:34 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck