Techie wiped a server, nobody noticed, so a customer kept paying for six months

The Register
Mar 13, 2023, 4:32 am260 pts
A missed migration mitigated the mistake Who, me? Why hello, Monday! You beastly harbinger of another week of work and associated woes, which The Register each week welcomes with an instalment of “Who, Me?”, our reader-contributed tales of techies who make mistakes and mostly mollify their masters.…

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