It’s a fairly safe bet that on any given day, at least a good dozen IT departments are trying to convince their bosses and/or users about the vital importance of backups. Unfortunately, it seems that the argument was lost in the South Korean government, as the institution data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2025/10/02/FPWGFSXMLNCFPIEGWKZF3BOQ3M/” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2025/10/02/FPWGFSXMLNCFPIEGWKZF3BOQ3M/” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>has completely lost the sizable amount of 858 terabytes of data, with 0 bytes of backups.
The event happened on September 26 and was data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/battery-fire-at-south-koreas-state-data-center-brings-government-services-offline/” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/battery-fire-at-south-koreas-state-data-center-brings-government-services-offline/” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>caused by a battery fire at the National Information Resources Service datacenter in Daejeon, burning…
