Fannie Mae, Ex-Programmer – Not Guilty of Virus

A 35 year old computer programmer pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges that he planted a computer virus designed to destroy all the data on 4,000 Fannie Mae computer servers the day he was fired from the company.

An Indian citizen, Rajendrasinh Babubhai Makwana who had been working as a contractor employee at Fannie Mae’s facility in Urbana, Maryland, was indicted on Tuesday by a federal grand jury for computer intrusion.

The indictment alleges that Makwana entered a malicious code on October 24, 2008, the day he was fired and told to turn in his Fannie Mae laptop and other equipment, and it was set to proliferate throughout the Fannie Mae network on January 31.