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The $38billion reformat....

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Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing information for an account worth $38 billion (?29 billion).

That is what happened to a computer technician reformatting a disk drive at the Alaska Department of Revenue. While doing routine maintenance work, the technician accidentally deleted applicant information for an oil-funded account ? one of Alaska residents' biggest perks ? and mistakenly reformatted the backup drive, as well.

There was still hope, until the department discovered its third line of defense, backup tapes, were unreadable.
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wow i bet he felt sick after that :o
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wonder if he got a cut of the overtime money his colleagues earned :p
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Ouch

How long until the conspiracies--- Or maybe it's a cover storey because how do you not only delete the account but also the backup? The backup of the backup being unreadable is believable though.

Saying that i'm stupid enough to do that :P
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