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by fixed_input 4886 days ago
"We were subsequently approached by the person who ran the rm -r * " ... " It is also obvious that the people who installed the plugin, had different intentions than causing easy to detect damage on the system."

Seems like a case of a script kiddie who got the login information from someone else...probably doesn't know his way around Linux too well and thought it would be funny to run a few commands, then got scared once he realized what he'd done and fessed up