Data recovery firm Kroll Ontrack have just released their annual
list of top ten data disasters, detailing some of the most dramatic
ways in which people have lost files and precious data. This year's
batch includes the amusing but cautionary tales of an SD card
chewed up by a teething tot and a laptop accidentally roasted in
the oven for dinner. You can watch reconstructions of the global
top five in video form, below. Bear in mind, though these incidents
are portrayed here by actors, they all actually happened - so
perhaps it's not just the risk of the simple loss or theft of a
memory stick from an employee that you need to be worrying about in
the next revision of your risk management strategy!
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