This demand, however, to erase the data of a multi-billion-dollar sovereign wealth fund reeked of desperation. Lower-level employees were told to bring their laptops and cell phones to the IT department, where staff wiped them clear of all data. Even information on the fund’s mainframe computer was obliterated. As an excuse, executives told staff there had been a hacking of 1MDB—that was how Sarawak Report had obtained the emails—and this was the only way to ensure security. The action was not rational. A company that’s facing a hacking threat can simply take its servers offline. Not long
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