A Montgomery County man was sentenced to three years and five months in prison for attempting to use a malicious code to wipe out data throughout Fannie Mae’s computer servers.
Prosecutors said Rajendrasinh B. Makwana, 36, was an engineer working as a contractor at the mortgage giant’s Urbana, Md., facility from 2006 to 2008. He was fired on Oct. 24, 2008, and a few days later, a Fannie Mae engineer found a malicious script in a program on Makwana’s laptop.
The malicious code, which was designed to destroy all data — including securities, financial and mortgage information — in Fannie Mae’s network was scheduled to run in January 2009.
A jury convicted Makwana in October.
