Even if you ignore the design issues that let contractors corrupt the database, it's still a massive failure of system design & policy because they clearly didn

Even if you ignore the design issues that let contractors corrupt the database, it's still a massive failure of system design & policy because they clearly didn't actually have a backup system. > When the system began having problems Tuesday night, technicians switched to a backup. But because the backup was attempting to access the same damaged data, it also didn’t work, the person said. Their entire backup plan was to fail over to an identical secondary system that was supposedly redundant. But, it was clearly sharing the same database system as the primary, thus they didn't actually have a fully redundant system. They had 1 system with some parts of it having a secondary, i.e. not an actual DR / failover plan.