The Baltimore Office of the FBI announced yesterday that a former employee of a Fannie Mae contractor was found guilty of computer intrusion for attempting to plant a malicious script on a server after being terminated.
After being terminated by Fannie Mae, Rajendrasinh Babubhai Makwana added malicious code to a boot script to be executed at a later date. The code, had it executed, would have destroyed all financial, securities and mortgage data on almost 5000 servers.
According to testimony and evidence presented at trial, Makwana was fired on October 24, 2008 and told to turn in all of his Fannie Mae equipment, including his laptop. On October 29, 2008, a Fannie Mae senior engineer discovered a malicious script embedded in a routine program. A subsequent analysis of the script, computer logs, Makwana’s laptop and other evidence, revealed that Makwana had transmitted the malicious code on October 24, 2008 which was intended to execute on January 31, 2009. The malicious code was designed to propagate throughout the Fannie Mae network of computers and destroy all data, including financial, securities and mortgage information.
Makwana faces up to 10 years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for December 9, 2010.
Source: Baltimore Office of the FBI
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