Comment by frm88

I don't know. To me, this is a human problem. Not only has the model access to the production database, they have the backups online on the same volume, have an offline backup 3 month old. This is an accumulation of bad practices, all of them human design failures. Instead of sitting down and rethinking their entire backup strategy they go public on twitter and blame a probabilistic machine doing what is within its parameters to do. I bet, even that failure could have been avoided, were more care given to what they do.