Wednesday, December 17, 2014

10 strangest cases of data loss – Money.pl

2014-12-16 16:58

Author: Christopher Pasławski

phone in the toilet, carefree dogs, laptops and deceitful malicious hackers. Kroll Ontrack has published its annual list of the most striking cases of data loss. At the top there is history of Polish.

The ranking includes cases which come into contact Kroll Inc. laboratories in the past year. These are the strangest of nearly 50 thousand. reported cases.

The most amazing cases of data loss in 2014. by Kroll Inc.:

1. Knockout (Poland)

Customer Relationships: ,, Laptop did not respond to my commands. I could not stand, I lost patience and hit him hard with an open hand. As a result, stopped working, so please help “. The expertise of specialists revealed that a blow to the device was extremely customs. It hit directly in the place where there was a hard drive, damaged head and outlined the plates. Despite extensive damage succeeded recover 50 per cent. of key data.

2. Misty views (Iceland)

A young tourist photographing a waterfall using a smartphone. As a result, a blast of water mist soaked phone . There has been a loss of all the images. The skilled failed to restore them.

3. Splash in the toilet (USA)

An employee Kroll Inc. after the company hid its meeting iPhone to the back pocket. When used the bathroom, the phone slipped out and landed in the toilet. Thanks to the quick response and move it to the on-site laboratory, all the data was recovered.

4. Hackers attack (USA)

The group of hackers attacked a hotel and removed data and backups from disk LUN 35. It is a pity, however, proved to be reversible. A team of specialists working both locally and remotely, to restore all the lost information.

5. Swept Away (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

The floods that hit the Balkans in 2014. Made a RAID server przedryfował almost 100 meters from the place where it originally was. The search for the device lasted two weeks. Throughout this time the server was in the water, but all the data restored.

6. Tablet in pieces (USA)

The laboratory Kroll Inc. brought literally smashed to pieces Microsoft Surface tablet. Has not been established, how it happened, and the only sure thing in this case is that it managed to recover 100 percent. the data.

7. Teether psi (USA)

The dog treated USB flash drive as his toy, designed for chewing. When we arrived at the laboratory equipment Kroll Ontrack, looked so like a dog’s throat removed. However, experts have recreated all the relevant information.

8. Collision and corrosion (Norway)

The data recovery engineers turned to the client, who was involved in a collision ferry. His camera for more than an hour has been exposed to water. Although corrode memory card, all the data was recovered.

9. Last straight (USA)

One company was preparing to exchange infrastructure. The new disk array waiting to unpack and run in the server. The day before the exchange of equipment, however, there has been a breakdown of the old matrix. The company lost access to key data. Thanks to the quick reaction of the IT administrator, who immediately called specialists, panic and stress did not last long, however.

10. Fire and Water (Germany)

Phone firefighter during the action has been damaged by water. There has been a loss of data, including pictures of family and friends. Specialists managed to deal with this problem and recover all 732 pictures.

The video for the three most bizarre cases can be found at: http://krollontrack.pl/top10.

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