According to the Dallas Police Department, an employee accidentally deleted eight terabytes worth of crime data during a data migration back in April. The revelation is just now being revealed.
Gizmodo reported:
The lost files, which included “images, video, audio, case notes or other items collected by DPD personnel in the course of their routine daily duties,” have now thrown numerous court cases into jeopardy.
District Attorney John Creuzot has said that the “the number and identification of specific cases affected” by the incident “is currently unknown.”
Why didn’t the police department tell everybody sooner?
According to them: “It was our intention to fully evaluate whether the data was recoverable or not to know the full extent of the problem if any.”
According to Bearing Arms, “The DA says he’s still not sure how many cases have been impacted, but 8TB is a lot of data, and it’s a fair assumption that we’re not going to be talking about a handful of charges that might ultimately have to be dismissed as a result of the screw up.”
Because of the data loss, at least one murder suspect was granted bond because of the data loss.
Wont employee get promoted??
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Or elected!
We have a governor doing the same thing, and while these felons are processed for release, they make sure they’re registered to vote! Some of those registrations are in Spanish…..
why don’t they ask joe to put them on the streets and avoid the trials altogether!
The data is not totally lost. It is in the Cloud forever and can be retrieved. How stupid are they that they don’t know this?
depends on where it was stored. if it was on a hard drive, it may be recovered as long as it wasn’t written over. you’d think they would back up their data.
The article states it was lost during a ‘data migration’ in April. It is likely the old drives were physically destroyed since then.
Unless magnetically deleted
The pointers to the sectors on the disk were deleted. The data is most likely still out there, but not easy for the average idiot to find. Someone that knows disk structure can recover it.
explain Hillarys data bleach ,now Hunters “stolen” lap top 3X.Yo if ya don’t look for it ya can’t find it.
Her files were retrived
“The cloud” doesn’t hold 1% of the total data stored OFFLINE.
Heads should roll over such incompetence! There should never be, can never be only ONE copy of ANYTHING unless there is criminal intent or total incompetence and no supervision.
When do we call the actions of Domestic Enemies of the USA (i.e.- Democrats), those who hate the country and most of its peoples; who sabotage the country and its resources, when do we brand them traitors and mete out appropriate consequences?
When?
The punishment for Treason is Hanging .It should be done in public to discourage others only problem is Hundreds of them are politicians At 10 a day it will take awhile
Dallas is Democrats this was intentional
They are lazy political hacks.
If you don’t store it there it is gone unless you back it up
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They better do a deep dive into that employee’s personal life and finances to see if there aren’t some large amounts of money being deposited into their bank account. Good likelihood someone who wanted their charges dropped paid-off this employee.
Another stunt to clear illegals in are country, more democrat think were stooped games ….
This is typical Dallas!
I work in IT. This would NEVER happen in any organization with the most basic of capabilities.
They were supposed to migrate a bunch of data from one server or computer to another and they missed transferring terabytes worth of data. Okay, where are the backups? Don’t tell me there are none. That’s incompetence. No one noticed that the data on the new hardware was several terabytes less than what was on the old hardware? That’s incompetence. No one checked to see if all the file folders and content matched? That’s incompetence.
The highest priority and most basic function of IT is to ensure the safety and preservation of the organization’s data.
This kind of error, or premeditated action, should have had a backup of paper files. Not having it, BIG MISTAKE!
Wait a minute. Their IT staff planned a large data migration without first backing up the data? That’s nearly impossible to comprehend.
Accidentally? Don’t make me laugh!
This was during the countless Antifa and other anarchistic riots which claimed many lives and property..
Anyone ever hear of backing up data? Computer Science 100.
Dallas, TX, just another LIBERAL MISMANAGED City Government! It is not possible, in today’s world that files like these are not backed up, in MULTIPLE PLACES. If they are not, HEADS MUST ROLL!
The employee knew!!! I’m calling BS on this!!!!
THIS WAS NOT AN ACCIDENT or is it the same as the Dominion scam..
probably some millennial anarchist wanting to spring some buddies from jail…
to all the self appointed “tech geniuses” out there, I’m sure the folks in DPD have thought about all your “solutions” by now!
But if posting your lame ideas makes you feel really smart, good for you!
Sorry I don’t buy that it was accidental at all
I find it hard to believe this was an accident. I would be more incline to think someone paid him and by deleting a whole file it looked like an accident.
I find it highly implausible that this gigantic data loss was accidental. My bet would be an employee wanted the files of a relative or friend to disappear or a category–such as illegal aliens’–files to disappear.
And why isn’t/aren’t the name/names of the employee/s being divulged? Whom are they protecting and why?
A fart contains more data than I keep on the cloud.
Every semi-competent data center has backup. Every competent data center has off-site backup. Where I worked before retiring, we used a NetApp file server that automatically took snapshots every time a file changed, and kept them in one day intervals for a week, one week intervals for a month, and one-month intervals for a year. A tape-mounting robot was running continuously, making backup tapes, that were shipped off-site weekly.
And, of course, for something as critical as the Dallas PD data, it would have been encrypted, especially if the file server is accessible to the net.
Was it a dem who “accidentally” did the “mistake” ?? If it was We all know he is innocent .
Bullshit, wasn’t an accident or you hire the mentally inept.
Another Democrat dirty trick they all hellbent on destoying this country
I wonder if this employee was a DNC Poll worker…
It can be retrieved by a computer specialist. They are not destroyed. That is what they need to do.
Get someone that knows how. Quit making excuses.
Accidental? 😂
LOST and Unretrievable?😂
These F’ing Democrats WILL DESTROY US FROM WITHIN!
My GOD!, WHAT A PURE EVIL FACTION!!! WOW!!!
KISS OUR SWEET ASS GOOD-BYE!
When the Majority of a country is made up of Immoral, Unscrupled Dumbasses…. it DIES!
This is a bunch of BS. All this information and that’s the only place this info was? Bull Shit! Are they the originals? Or copies? If this is the only place this info was kept then a few people need to lose their jobs like fast before they get a few more bad guys released. Is this the only source of this info? I find that hard to believe.
Wondering if the employee doing the transfer had a friend/family member being investigated/charged with the data that as ‘lost’!
Wondering if the employee doing the transfer had a friend/family member being investigated/charged with the data that was ‘lost’!
This was NOT “accidental”. This was done INTENTIONALLY! I live in Dallas and I know ALL ABOUT the District Attorney John Creuzot. This guy is a BIG TIME liberal and he has said more than once that, basically, he doesn’t like putting people in jail. For the most part, he does not want to prosecute criminals. This is not an opinion of mine … it is FACT. He views criminals as “victims” and that is why he doesn’t want to prosecute them. Chris Krok, the nighttime radio host of WBAP (a local radio station) calls the District Attorney John Creuzot … “let ’em go Creuzot” due to the fact he releases criminals instead of prosecuting them.
Just understand that this creep is absolutely lying with his claim that that the crime data was “accidentally deleted”. There is NO DOUBT in my mind he had it done purposely. This guy John Cruezot needs to be removed and put in jail.