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Oh, I definitely believe the guy could have done it just because he wanted to. Some people simply like the thrill of screwing other people, especially if they can rationalize it as acceptable since they're "helping" their employer. There was a famous case of competitor sabotage at my husband's company's datacenter. After a series of surprising and oddly coincidental server failures across several companies that were hosted there, they realized it was a service technician for a specific brand of high-end server who was deliberately breaking the rival brand's servers along the datacenter aisles. What he would do is carry a little whoopee-cushion type bag inside his shirt, right under his arm, and as he walked past the fan air intakes he would give a quick squeeze and release a puff of graphite powder to be sucked into the machines. He did literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage before they caught him, and they never would have believed the balls of his setup if they hadn't caught him on the security tape and arrested him with the bag still strapped to his side.
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