But the report is saying he was fired for ‘changing a few settings’..then planted the data bomb on Oct 24th..after he was fired.
I'd chalk that up to reporter ignorance. There'd be no way for him to get into the system after being fired.
My money's on a "deadman timer" program that triggered after he failed to log on to the system for a while. Whatever else he did with the "changed settings," they would been utilized by his bomb as well.
He planted it on October 24th (after he was fired). It wasn’t discovered until October 29. But it wasn’t set to go off until January 31, 2009. If this was a disgruntled employee, why wait for it to go off so long after he was fired?