South Korean Government Confirms Their 750,000 Workers Lost All Their Cloud Based Storage Files Due to Server Fire
What a disaster this has turned into. Why were such sensitive data servers located near lithium ion batteries known to cause fires? Hopefully other governments and businesses are looking at where their cloud based storage is located at in order to prevent something like this from happening again:
The government’s official document storage system has been destroyed in last week’s fire at the state data management agency, wiping out work documents of the nation’s 750,000 civil servants, the interior ministry said Wednesday.
The cloud-based repository, known as G Drive, was among the 96 systems that burned down in Friday’s fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) in Daejeon, about 140 kilometers south of Seoul, according to the ministry.
As the system is not backed up externally, all documents stored on the repository have been lost. Government employees have been advised to save all work-related documents on G Drive since 2018, rather than on their computers.
Government branches that have exclusively used the system to store work documents are expected to experience significant disruptions to operations.
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There was a similar data center fire in Singapore recently. The managers responsible for this data should be criminally-investigated.
https://internationalfireandsafetyjournal.com/data-centre-fire-safety-under-scrutiny-after-multiple-incidents/
There have been fires in data centers across Asia.
This level of negligence (i.e., no offsite backups) is probably criminal. I know it would be in the US for any government or financial institution.
I guess I am officially smarter than 750,000 people as of now.
There is no such thing as “the cloud”. There are only somebody else’s computers that you don’t control.
And statistically, some weak link in the workflow is dumber and less competent than you.
Every now and then, the work server goes down and we are paralyzed for an hour or so.
By “we”, I mean everybody but me.