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Hostel California writes:

NG Bank’s main data center in Bucharest, Romania, was severely damaged over the weekend during a fire extinguishing test. In what is a very rare but known phenomenon, it was the loud sound of inert gas being released that destroyed dozens of hard drives. The site is currently offline and the bank relies solely on its backup data center, located within a couple of miles’ proximity.

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-loud-sound-just-shut-down-a-banks-data-center-for-10-hours [vice.com]

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