1/ LATEST: S. Korea data centre fire catastrophe. Two weeks on, the scale is still staggering. 858TB of government work files permanently lost with no backup. A government official has died. Gov admitted they miscounted affected systems by 62. Only 27% of systems restored.
2/ The G-Drive catastrophe: 858TB of civil servants' work files completely destroyed. Cloud storage system had no backup because officials said there were "too many small files to backup in real time". Some backup disks existed but burned in the same room. https://biz.chosun.com/topics/...
3/ Some ministries actively encouraged staff to use G-Drive as their primary storage system. Civil servants are now facing years of work simply vanished. One official said all their work files are gone and they're experiencing a complete mental breakdown. https://biz.chosun.com/topics/...
4/ The government initially said 647 systems were down, then corrected today to 709. Their management system was also destroyed in the fire, so they'd been counting based on "staff memory" etc. Officials apologised for the confusion. https://www.newsis.com/view/NI...
5/ The scope of destruction remains unclear. Officials initially said 96 systems were completely destroyed, now suggest just under 300 systems across three computer rooms were affected. Admit numbers will likely also change. https://www.newsis.com/view/NI...
6/ The human cost is mounting. A government official who'd worked at the centre since it opened has died by suicide during recovery efforts. 960 people are now working on restoration. Psychological counsellors have been deployed on site. https://x.com/koryodynasty/sta...
7/ Recovery timeline keeps slipping. 193/709 systems restored. For critical Grade 1 systems, 25/40 back online. New equipment is arriving and officials claim recovery will accelerate after 15 October, but the original four-week target now looks uncertain. https://www.theguardian.com/wo...