A fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) Daejeon headquarters destroyed the government’s G-Drive cloud storage system, erasing work files saved individually by some 750,000 civil servants.
However, due to the system’s large-capacity, low-performance storage structure, no external backups were maintained — meaning all data has been permanently lost.
Why were there no backups? “Because there was a lot of data” isn’t really an answer.
Every single high level IT-manager I’ve met except one has been completely clueless about IT and only gotten the position by licking ass and promising meaningless things that sounds good to the equally clueless board or executives (like “we will use AI in over 60% of our business by the end of the year”).
When entirely predictable shit eventually hits the fan, they redirect all blame.
The agency responsible for providing medical information over phone and the internet in Sweden kept the recorded phone conversations of patients calling them on a publicly accessible NAS in Thailand.
Why were there no backups? “Because there was a lot of data” isn’t really an answer.
… how in the… oO… but … backup strategy and… restore tests… who was in charge of the IT?!?
Every single high level IT-manager I’ve met except one has been completely clueless about IT and only gotten the position by licking ass and promising meaningless things that sounds good to the equally clueless board or executives (like “we will use AI in over 60% of our business by the end of the year”).
When entirely predictable shit eventually hits the fan, they redirect all blame.
The agency responsible for providing medical information over phone and the internet in Sweden kept the recorded phone conversations of patients calling them on a publicly accessible NAS in Thailand.
oooh boy, you don’t happend to have a good source on that swedish thing, do you? i gotta read about that too
https://www.edpb.europa.eu/news/national-news/2021/swedish-dpa-investigation-1177-incident-finalized_en
It’s missing the now iconic quote about how “An internet cable had accendentally become connected to the hard drive”.
new guy, think he said his name was Jim Kong
“Thousands of gigabytes!”
I wonder how much it was, and how badly it was centralised.
Single NAS in a storage closet.
It wasn’t replicated to a second physical location? Wild.
and they were using a cloud, was it a primary cloud they were using inhouse?
Not a great plan