Frans Cutler is in charge of information technology for GreenSpace Manufacturing Inc. GreenSpace manufactures portable office cubicles that can be inserted inside existing office buildings. The cubicles have special features that permit them to be directly connected to existing network, electrical, plumbing, and ventilation systems. GreenSpace is a very high-tech company with a large state-of the-art data center, which has some of the best security available, including a double-door entry system, video surveillance, special door locks, and so on. GreenSpace recently merged with CubeCasa, a company that manufactures fully functional, but very small, portable houses. As part of the merger, GreenSpace absorbed all the data-processing operations of CubeCasa, and because of the efficiency gains from the merger, GreenSpace was able to reduce the number of its data center employees from 25 to only 14, while keeping 4 out of 18 of the data center employees that worked for CubeCasa before the merger. One great benefit of the merger was that GreenSpace was able to update the security of its data center to the very best possible. Frans Cutler felt really good about overall security and business continuity plans. But, things went bad. Frans received a text message on Saturday afternoon from a bot that monitored data center operations on the weekends. The bot indicated that the entire data center was offline. So, Frans drove in to take a look. Frans fell into a state of total shock and horror upon his arrival. Servers everywhere were pulled out of their racks, strewn around the floor, and badly smashed and warped. Wires were ripped up everywhere and shredded into pieces. The main power supply units had large holes in their sides. It looked like a full military assault had been conducted against the entire data center. He found a large lumberjack axe left on the floor in the middle of the room. He went to check the video surveillance system, but he was again faced by the unexpected: The video surveillance digital video recorders had been ripped out of the secret place where they had been hidden in the false floor. Finally, the guard at the main entrance had not seen or heard anything suspicious. Further inspection of the complex revealed that the perpetrators had first broken into the adjacent warehouse and then made their way to the data center through a closed-off breezeway that connected the two buildings.

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How you would investigate this attack on the GreenSpace's data center? What initial fraud theory might you consider?