Okaaaay so it was probably just some guy who was pissed off that he got fired. But how much fun to think that Tyler Durden may have lived in the heart of this guy:

The Justice Department says it foiled a plot by a fired Fannie Mae contract worker in Maryland to destroy all the data on the mortgage giant’s 4,000 computer servers nationwide.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 35-year-old Rajendrasinh Makwana, of Glen Allen, Va., is scheduled for arraignment Friday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on one count of computer intrusion.

U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein says Makwana was fired Oct. 24.

Rosenstein says that on that day, Makwana programmed a computer with a malicious code that was set to spread throughout the Fannie Mae network and destroy all data this Saturday.

Imagine the chaos if all of FNM’s records were suddenly eradicated. From a Fight Club standpoint, you have to wonder if many borrowers would have actually had their debts effectively wiped out, thus achieving the “mortgage relief” we keep hearing about. Of course, these days most mortgages have been bundled and traded hands so many times that the lax accounting is practically the equivalent of having the paper trail completely wiped, and I’m surprised that more borrowers aren’t demanding that lenders prove they really hold their note.

(h/t to hoodcity for the link)