A former Unix engineer for the Federal National Mortgage Association, better known as Fannie Mae, has been accused of planting malicious code on the corporation's network that was to "destroy and alter" all of the data on the company's servers this Saturday, court documents show.
Rajendrasinh Babubhai Makwana, 35, was indicted Tuesday by a federal court on a single charge of computer intrusion, according to documents released yesterday.
The malicious script was set to trigger Jan. 31 -- this Saturday -- but was discovered by another Fannie Mae engineer just five days after Makwana was fired. According to the criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court, Makwana tried to hide the malicious script by inserting a page of blank lines at the bottom of the legitimate script.
Like we needed any more havoc in the mortgage industry...
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