A federal grand jury in Maryland has indicted a 35-year-old man for planting a malicious script on Fannie Mae’s servers. The code is said to have wiped out all data on the company’s servers on January 31st, 2009. If found guilty, the man could face a sentence of up to ten years in prison. The case is not yet decided, but imagine what the impact could have been on the financial system. As weve written before, a disaffected employee could create havoc inside your organisation.”]
Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2009/01/29/fannie-mae-worker-accused-planting-malware-timebomb/