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Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard (www.theregister.com)
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A four-hour system interruption in September at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri has been attributed to a cat jumping on a technician's keyboard.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, anybody in IT knows this is bullshit. I guarantee these people had several holes in their processes, didn't properly back things up, and have been accidentally losing data for YEARS. Somebody recently noticed it, so they decided to blame a cat.