Angry Fannie Mae worker plants computer virus after being fired

The Washington Examiner ^ | 1/29/09 | Freeman Klopott

[theruleshavechanged]

A fired Fannie Mae contract employee allegedly placed a virus in the mortgage giant’s software that could have shut the company down for at least a week and caused millions of dollars in damage, prosecutors say.

[theruleshavechanged]

. . . I wonder if angry mortgage holders could do the same?

[Sig Sauer P220]

Was it an STD?

[Perdogg]

Should have gotten “carbonite”. ;)

[Badeye]

Give the former employee a medal for protecting the US taxpayers for a full week is my advice...

[library user]

The virus changes all employee desktops to this.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

LOL!

[theDentist]

It’s the Bawny Fwank Viwus: It searches the servers and changes every ‘R’ to a ‘W’.

[GOP_Lady]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

I’m infected!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[FormerLib]

These sort of things always look great on your resume!

[GOP_Lady]

Just when you think things couldn’t get any worse at Fannie Mae. LOL.

[pappyone]

I would do her.

[seatrout]

—Rajendrasinh Makwana, an Indian citizen, was indicted Tuesday on computer intrusion charges. The former Gaithersburg resident is out on $100,000 bail, court documents said.—

I wonder if he was here on an H1-b visa?

[Joe Boucher]

Guy that use to be president of my homeowners assoc. was a fannie mae big wig.
Never one receipt for four years of paid bills, no taxes ever being done, and wrote a $2600 check to himself for “reimbursement” with no receipts.
Is it any wonder fannie is garbage with higher ups who do business like this?

[FReepaholic]

From the article:

...a senior computer engineer discovered the virus Oct. 29. The malicious code was hidden after a blank page, and “it was only by chance” that the senior engineer scrolled down and found the virus, Nye wrote. The engineer locked down Fannie Mae’s servers to determine whether other viruses were hidden inside and where the virus had come from...

...The virus was set to execute at 9 a.m. Jan. 31, first disabling Fannie Mae’s computer monitoring system and then cutting all access to the company’s 4,000 servers, Nye wrote. Anyone trying to log in would receive a message saying “Server Graveyard.”...

...From there, the virus would wipe out all Fannie Mae data, replacing it with zeros, Nye wrote. Finally, the virus would shut down the servers...

They got lucky. The engineer should get a raise.

[cp124]

AVG Free?

[RJL]

...From there, the virus would wipe out all Fannie Mae data, replacing it with zeros, Nye wrote. Finally, the virus would shut down the servers...

Thereby covering all the Democrat footprints in the massive fraud?

Or... we could look at it as a make-work stimulus plan driving the rebuilding of Fannie Mae's IT infrastructure.

[Freedom_Is_Good]

Why so big. Damn.... you scared the $h_t out of me dude! Thats just wrong!

[ritewingwarrior]

That was my first thought.

[4Liberty]

Agreed. A RAT cover up.

Sounds much like Hillary’s W.H. “filegate”
(’I can’t find them ...’)

Can public opinion of government go much lower?