US Air Force Loses Investigation Database
We have recently written about the mind staggering fact that the Pentagon still uses floppy disks to perform nuclear missions. This new story is another unbelievable technical blunder on behalf of the world’s richest armed forces.
The US Air Force has lost records of fraud and abuse investigations going back to 2004 due to a corrupted database, Defense One reports. About 100,000 records disappeared into thin air, and while the database has been recovered, the Air Force doesn’t know why it happened.
The database, and backups, that hosts files from the Air Force’s inspector general and legislative liaison divisions became corrupted in May. Neither Lockheed Martin, the defence contractor who maintained the database, nor the Air Force itself can say with any certainty why that happened. Lockheed, apparently, spent two weeks trying to recover the information before notifying the Air Force of the calamity.
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