“The City of Norfolk, Virginia is reeling from a massive
computer meltdown in which an unidentified family of malicious code
destroyed data on nearly 800 computers citywide. The incident is
still under investigation, but city officials say the attack may
have been the result of a computer time bomb planted in advance by
an insider or employee and designed to trigger at a specific
date.“Hap Cluff, director of the information technology department
for the City of Norfolk, said the incident began on Feb. 9, and
that the city has been working ever since to rebuild 784 PCs and
laptops that were hit (the city manages roughly 4,500 systems
total).“”We don’t believe it came in from the Internet. We don’t know
how it got into our system,”