Gather around fellow IT guys,
This is the tale of my first internship, after only a few months of school.
I was working in a 4500+ employees company operating all around Europe. Their IT service was really understaffed, located in a small city in the countryside. I was employed in a big city where my supervisor, Mr.P was the only IT guy and had to deal with about 300~ employees. The IT service was treated so bad that EVERYONE quit at the same time a few months later. But this is a story for next time.
On the friday morning of my first week of internship everything was going fine, Mr.P brought me a NAS in raid1 and told me to erase it, switch it in raid0 and to put it into the server room. He told me that server was named "NAS-City".
I looked for the IP using WireShark and found a NAS called "NASCity" under some IP. "NAS-City" was nowhere to be found, Mr.P was gone until the next monday, I didn't want to appear lazy, I just thought he misspelled the name. I connected to the NAS, the credentials are accepted, I click on "switch to raid0".
I shit you not, less than 5 seconds after I clicked someone called the IT office complaining his files were gone. The phone was blinking, mails started to flood the IT service mailbox, shit hit the fan really hard.
Turns out I erased a year worth of work of the service in charge of making the 600 pages catalog for the company products. These guys were all working on files on the NAS, they had no local copy.
The credentials worked because this company is using the exact same credentials for every NAS (400~) they have. ಠ_ಠ
There were about 50 people involved in the making of the catalog and they take their vacation in August, when the catalog goes to printing to be distributed in September.
Well, this year, they all had to cancel their vacations and worked from 7:30AM to 11PM during June, July and August to build back what was deleted. They even had to re-hire models and photographs to take pictures of the products.
The best part? About a month before I arrived in the company, my supervisor sent a mail to this particular service informing them that they should NOT consider this storage safe, that hard drive failure was possible, that there were absolutely no backups.
Needless to say these guys hated me, good times, good times. - User antonhansel on Reddit
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