Funny — two weeks ago I got to take part in a CIRT (Computer Incident Response Team) training session which goes over things like this and how a company handles it when it happens. Although most of it dealt with computers being attacked externally via servers, they also reviewed malicious attacks internally from disgruntled employees. Had two guys from IBM who had some hair-raising stories to tell, and one Special Agent from the a big city FBI Cyber Crimes Unit who sat through the entire presentation and didn’t utter a word. The Fannie Mae guy must be a bumbler — there’s a lot easier ways to wipe out all the data other than introducing a virus, but he was probably planning on not getting caught. If he was a really disenchanted employee and didn’t give a rip, that data would have been blasted. Wonder who paid him, and how much?