Definitely. Especially when considering that there were 95 other systems in this datacentre which do have backups and
> The actual number of users is about 17% of all central government officials
Far from all, and they're not sure what's recoverable yet ("“It’s difficult to determine exactly what data has been lost.”")
Which is not to say that it's not big news ("the damage to small business owners who have entered amounts to 12.6 billion Korean won.” The ‘National Happiness Card,’ used for paying childcare fees, etc., is still ‘non-functional.’"), but to put it a bit in perspective and not just "all was lost" as the original submission basically stated
Definitely. Especially when considering that there were 95 other systems in this datacentre which do have backups and
> The actual number of users is about 17% of all central government officials
Far from all, and they're not sure what's recoverable yet ("“It’s difficult to determine exactly what data has been lost.”")
Which is not to say that it's not big news ("the damage to small business owners who have entered amounts to 12.6 billion Korean won.” The ‘National Happiness Card,’ used for paying childcare fees, etc., is still ‘non-functional.’"), but to put it a bit in perspective and not just "all was lost" as the original submission basically stated
Quotes from https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2025/10/02/FPWGFS... as linked by u/layer8 elsewhere in this thread
Totally, backup disasters are a regular occurence (maybe not to the degree of negligence) but the Estonia DR is wild.