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Computer Crash Wipes Out Years of Air Force Investigation Records
Defense One ^ | 13 June 2016 | Patrick Tucker

Posted on 06/15/2016 7:58:41 AM PDT by Lorianne

The U.S. Air Force has lost records concerning 100,000 investigations into everything from workplace disputes to fraud.

A database that hosts files from the Air Force’s inspector general and legislative liaison divisions became corrupted last month, destroying data created between 2004 and now, service officials said. Neither the Air Force nor Lockheed Martin, the defense firm that runs the database, could say why it became corrupted or whether they’ll be able to recover the information.

Lockheed tried to recover the information for two weeks before notifying the Air Force, according to a service statement.

The Air Force has begun asking for assistance from cybersecurity professionals at the Pentagon as well as from private contractors.


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: airforce; coverup; cyberwar; cyberwarfare; lockheed; lockheedmartin; obamasfault; oops; usaf
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To: Lorianne

Maybe this is a good thing. Probably done by a straight white male Christian.


61 posted on 06/15/2016 9:08:25 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: BlessedBeGod
No backups? How freaking incompetent.

That would have required a separate contract from the one Lockheed-Martin had for maintaining the data.

It probably would have gone to Northrop or Boeing, which means their computer systems wouldn't have been compatible...

...which means there would have been a need for a THIRD contract, to determine compatibility between systems, this one going to Cisco...

...THEN there would have been a FOURTH contract, to Halliburton, enact the compatibility studies.

This would have led to a FIFTH contract, to the RAND Corporation, to see if it was effective.

So, you see, the Air Force was actually a "good steward" of public funds!

62 posted on 06/15/2016 9:13:29 AM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: Roccus

Actually, that would work.


63 posted on 06/15/2016 9:18:02 AM PDT by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost, like tears in rain.)
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To: Lorianne

Click-bait headline. If it were true we wouldn’t be hearing it from this source. If there is any truth to the story it is probably a corrupt index which is easily resolved and probably has already been resolved since the article was placed to drive traffic.


64 posted on 06/15/2016 9:32:19 AM PDT by webheart (We are all pretty much living in a fiction.)
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To: Lorianne

“Back-ups”????

This is computer illiteracy writ large - or a deliberate scheme.


65 posted on 06/15/2016 10:16:00 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Starboard
Backups of Backups. Yup. I never, ever excoriate the guys on my team for taking time for backups. "Jeez, why do we have all of these extra backups?!" is never a question that I will ask.

However.... (and you knew this was coming)

We need to know that the data exists, in order to back it up.

I've worked in a lot of places where departments would spin up databases - or, most likely, move things from testing into production - without bothering to mention it to Infrastructure. "Oh yeah, that thing? Yeah, I forgot to tell you, we've been using it in production for the past 2 years, even if it's on the Dev side of the house, sitting on an antique server underneath some guy's desk, and the server is labeled "TESTING ONLY, THIS IS NEVER, EVER, EVER BACKED UP!!!". So, can you restore it? Why the @$#@$@$@ not?"

Just sayin'. It happens. But it shouldn't happen to critical systems.

66 posted on 06/15/2016 10:51:05 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Lorianne

WTF? Backups? Who the hell runs systems like this without offline backups? It’s sysadmin 101. First thing, before you load production data is to make sure your backup regimen is up and running.


67 posted on 06/15/2016 11:02:41 AM PDT by zeugma (Welcome to the "interesting times" you were warned about.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Do you smell fish?


68 posted on 06/15/2016 11:03:02 AM PDT by Impy (Never Shillery)
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To: Lorianne
I wonder how many of these 'private contractors' gave donations to the Clinton Foundation?

Copy the data, sell to the highest bidder, erase the original data from the Air Force computers.

69 posted on 06/15/2016 11:09:29 AM PDT by null and void (Hillary Milhouse Clinton: I'm not a c-c-c-crook! Crook! Yeah, that's the c-word I was looking for!)
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To: zeugma

Hardware always fails, that’s why you keep good backups. We have backup tapes in two offsite locations plus one onsite. When you have mission critical systems, the cost of losing the operating system is nothing compared to the years of information on the system!


70 posted on 06/15/2016 11:10:15 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: Lorianne

TWA Flight 800.?


71 posted on 06/15/2016 11:27:57 AM PDT by ALASKA (Disgusted.....)
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To: jdege

#42 : )
I have restored Windows once where it worked and have tried to restore where it did not. The files were still there but I had to install Windows from scratch and install all my software then copy my files from the backup.


72 posted on 06/15/2016 11:29:55 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Lorianne

Lois Lerner hard drive.

Hillary Hard Drive

How many more hard drives and servers will be ‘wiped’ I mean crash, when Obama leaves office?


73 posted on 06/15/2016 12:26:40 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: circlecity; BlessedBeGod
"Backups are so standard and routine that this goes beyond incompetence. As someone noted above, this was clearly an intentional act to hide something."

Correct.

74 posted on 06/15/2016 1:11:50 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Lorianne

The Babylonians wrote their history on clay and stone tables. It appears our government uses the equivalent of a high-tech Etch-A-Sketch.


75 posted on 06/15/2016 1:16:33 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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