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Ex Fannie Mae employ caught trying to use virus to destroy all mortgage data

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  1. paz5050 paz5050 is offline

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    Jan 30th, 2009 (1/30/2009 12:48pm)

    craziness

    like a cross between office space and project mayhem

    http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1

    <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top width="99%">Feds allege plot to destroy Fannie Mae data</TD><TD vAlign=top align=right></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD colSpan=2></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="99%"><SPAN>Jan 30 10:54 AM US/Eastern</SPAN>
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    The U.S. Attorney's Office says 35-year-old Rajendrasinh Makwana, of Glen Allen, Va., is scheduled for arraignment Friday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on one count of computer intrusion.
    U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein says Makwana was fired Oct. 24.
    Rosenstein says that on that day, Makwana programmed a computer with a malicious code that was set to spread throughout the Fannie Mae network and destroy all data this Saturday.
    Makwana's federal public defender did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
    Washington-based Fannie Mae is the largest U.S. mortgage finance company. </SPAN>

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  2. cmval cmval is offline

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    Jan 30th, 2009 (1/30/2009 1:11pm) in reply to paz5050

    someone please explain to me what wouldve happened had this gone down
  3. Autolobotomist Autolobotomist is offline playing air is my style? so what

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    Jan 30th, 2009 (1/30/2009 1:12pm) in reply to cmval

    They'd have restored from one of a dozen of yesterday's backups.
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    Jan 30th, 2009 (1/30/2009 1:13pm) in reply to Autolobotomist

    ok so what happens if they are destroyed as well?
  5. LeftyMark LeftyMark is online now Boss of Birds

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    Jan 30th, 2009 (1/30/2009 1:14pm) in reply to paz5050

    Sandy Berger works for Fannie Mae now?
  6. Autolobotomist Autolobotomist is offline playing air is my style? so what

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    Jan 30th, 2009 (1/30/2009 1:16pm) in reply to cmval

    Man, i thought I had the easy cop-out answer. Foiled again!
  7. Autolobotomist Autolobotomist is offline playing air is my style? so what

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    Jan 30th, 2009 (1/30/2009 1:16pm) in reply to LeftyMark

    *rimshot*
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    Jan 30th, 2009 (1/30/2009 1:18pm) in reply to LeftyMark

    sandy burgler clean record

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  9. HK_MP5N HK_MP5N is offline

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    Jan 30th, 2009 (1/30/2009 1:22pm) in reply to Autolobotomist

     
    Originally Posted by Autolobotomist View Post

    They'd have restored from one of a dozen of yesterday's backups.

    Assumption the backups are that recent and good (yes, many corporations screw this up).

    They also need to be held up to there own fuck up here, this termination could not have been handled any worse than they did. You CANNOT let someone still have access like that, they got lucky, period.
  10. R_U_Nuts R_U_Nuts is offline

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    Jan 30th, 2009 (1/30/2009 2:17pm) in reply to paz5050

    I dont think it was a virus but years ago National City had a bad computer problem and lost thousands of accounts. I had a car loan with them and it took 3 months before they got all the information back into the computers. I'm pretty sure they had to have people come in and do it all off of hard copies. The worst part about the whole thing was that by the time they got it fixed my car payment was 3 months past due andthey wanted to charge me late fees even though I couldnt make a payment due to there foul up. It took me another week to get them to drop the late fees.
  11. stevester214 stevester214 is offline

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    Jan 30th, 2009 (1/30/2009 2:25pm) in reply to paz5050

    And he would have gotten away with it too if you werent for those pesky kids and mutt.
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