Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code

Found on Independent on Thursday, 14 April 2016
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Mr Marsala wrote on a forum for server experts called Server Fault that he was now stuck after having accidentally run destructive code on his own computers. But far from advising them how to fix it, most experts informed him that he had just accidentally deleted the data of his company and its clients, and in so doing had probably destroyed his entire company with just one line of code.

Mr Marsala confirmed that the code had even deleted all of the backups that he had taken in case of catastrophe. Because the drives that were backing up the computers were mounted to it, the computer managed to wipe all of those, too.

That is literally the worst that can happen to an admin. All the rm -rf jokes aside, his world now got really painful and filled with lawyers.

Update: Turns out it was a marketing attempt by Marco Marsala to promote his company. The decision if joking about deleting your customer's data is a good idea will be left to you.