Computer Crash Wipes Out Years of Air Force Investigation Records
Found on Defense One on Tuesday, 14 June 2016
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.
The Air Force has begun asking for assistance from cybersecurity professionals at the Pentagon as well as from private contractors.
That should also answer all questions about how the Air Force does backups.