The choice bits:
> During this time Makwana had root access to all of the main
> systems, credentials which the company failed to revoke until
> the evening of the day of his layoff.
> His intention was nothing short of replacing the entire financial
> data, including the backups, from all of the company's production
> servers, with zeroes.
> the admin appended malicious code to a legitimate script, leaving
> a page-worth of blank lines between the two in order to avoid
> detection.
> Had this malicious script executed, engineers expect it would
> have caused millions of dollars of damage and reduced if not
> shutdown operations at Fannie Mae for at least one week.