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Oops! Computer tech wipes out info on $38B fund

Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroy hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disc drive containing an account worth $38 billion.

That may be how a computer technician at the Alaska Department of Revenue feels after deleting applicant information for an oil-funded sales account — one of state residents’ biggest perks.

While reformatting the disk drive during a routine maintenance check, the technician mistakenly reformatted the back up drive as well and, suddenly, all the data disappeared.

But the dread didn’t really set in until the department turned to its third line of defense, back up tapes that are updated nightly, only to find those tapes were unreadable.

Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-03-20-alaska-data_N.htm

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