Angry worker accused of deleting $2.5 million worth of data

A Florida woman who feared she was about to be fired was accused of deleting seven years of architectural drawings valued at $2.5 million. The woman allegedly saw a want ad from her boss that described her position. Someone entered the office at 11 p.m. that Sunday and apparently spent four hours deleting files. The company owner said the files were recovered.

Read the full story on The Register: Employee's silent rampage wipes out $2.5m worth of data.

[gurfrip]

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.

CNET is lame.

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[Scott.Walker]

yeah, this was a pretty pointless story - on the plus side, it gave me a chuckle, so it wasn't all wasted!
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'.

[orangecircuspeanuts]

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.