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How'd you like to be this guy...
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:01 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Re: How'd you like to be this guy...
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:51 pm
by Buddha443556
I'd rather play tag with a Alaskan grizzly bear than be that guy.
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:32 pm
by John Cartwright
I'd hate to be him when applying for a new job
Application
Reason for leaving last employement:
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:41 pm
by Luke
haha my boss just sent me that same article in an email entitled "You would be fired"

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:51 am
by matthijs
Well if I were the boss I would fire the management who was responsible for deploying such a weak system.
I mean, one single tech guy is able to just wipe out a $38bn fund? Then you have a very, very serious problem in your system. And if I were a customer I would redraw my funds immediately.
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:32 am
by Jenk
If I were that guy, I'd be firmly arguing the above. One person should not be able to wipe the entire account. Where was their off-site backup? Where was their 'disconnected' backup?
Unless this one guy had a serious grievance, and deliberately erased it all, I find it astoundingly difficult to believe that such a colossal amount of data can be wiped by pure accident.
At the very best this failure is a huge auditing failure for the managing company.
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:50 am
by Xoligy
There were multiple back-up systems, but they all coincidentally failed at once. Sounds fishy to me

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:53 am
by RobertGonzalez
From reading the article, the backup got torched just before this big fiasco. The third back up was corrupted when they went to restore from it. They had the back ups, they just didn't use them right.
I do agree that no single person should ever be able to bring down billions of dollars worth of fundage or clients. Just seems unstable.
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:15 am
by Buddha443556
Among the information lost were the yearly payout from the Alaska Permanent Fund, 800 electronic images that had been scanned into the systems months earlier, the 2006 applications that people had either mailed in or filed over the counter and supporting documents such as birth certificates and proof of residence.
I'm just glad the data wasn't kept on a laptop!
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:23 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
It's doubtful the employee will be fired unless it was deliberate, and even than I can only guess the management are all sitting around making baleful glares at the IT Manager who is ultimately responsible for maintaining operating controls. They will definitely have a fun time whenever their auditors are due to make an appearance - they'll be wanting to check the entire backup system and may even push for a full random failure rehearsal before they'll sign off on the next controls report.
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:10 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Wasn't that a state office? I doubt they will do anything with this incident.