Angry worker accused of deleting $2.5 million worth of data
Read the full story on The Register: Employee's silent rampage wipes out $2.5m worth of data.
Read the full story on The Register: Employee's silent rampage wipes out $2.5m worth of data.
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- by gurfrip January 25, 2008 9:09 AM PST
- Big deal, an individual does this to a company and you print it. Google causes my family to suffer for almost 18 months under DHS/NSA surveillance by Cyber-Tag to induce NSA Cyber-Terrorism Counter-Measures nearly killing me and you don't do one story.
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- by Scott.Walker January 26, 2008 1:05 AM PST
- yeah, this was a pretty pointless story - on the plus side, it gave me a chuckle, so it wasn't all wasted!
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- by orangecircuspeanuts January 28, 2008 11:32 AM PST
- I thought this story was pointless but pretty humorous. This is a good example of why some people should not use computers: The lady being proactively spiteful by deleting data, The owner declining to comment whether or not he kept any backups of data apparently worth $2.5m, and the first commentors response.
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(3 Comments)CNET is lame.
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It would have been more worth while if the data was unrecoverable, which would have pointed out the ineptitude of the company's IT archival technique (or lack there of I'm suspecting based on their failure to comment on whether or not the data was backed up anywhere). As it turned out, this story appears to be a last minute attempt to 'publish something'.