Fannie Mae Employee Gets Fired; Plants Logic Bomb On Way Out

Rajendrasinh Makwana, an Indian citizen living in the United States under a work visa, was fired from his job for creating a superscript that would update all of the servers at Fannie Mae without authorization. Rather than revoking his network access and privileges, Fannie Mae let the guy stick around long enough to use his superscript to try to take down all of the servers in the organization. It was by sheer luck that he was caught in time.

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