JUNEAU, Alaska - Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing an account worth $38 billion.
That's what happened to a computer technician reformatting a disk drive at the Alaska Department of Revenue. While doing routine maintenance work, the technician accidentally deleted applicant information for an oil-funded account — one of Alaska residents' biggest perks — and mistakenly reformatted the backup drive, as well.
There was still hope, until the department discovered its third line of defense, backup tapes, were unreadable.
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Wasn't me :((
:o <:> :##
bet there was a lot of shouting and loss of sleep up there! !@#$
i bet there was a lot of :[ :{: (O+O) going around there :##
:o :{:
:ooo
:)) :))
and i bet alot of :OO :" :{: :: :)))
Bookeeping? ::)
bet he was in a :=
Ill bet he got fired!!
i bet his/her boss said :%# :[ :{: no raise this year :)))
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