Outline:
Message posted to the ServerFault forum claimed that the poster had deleted all files on his web hosting company’s servers – including backups – when he accidentally ran a misconfigured script.
Brief Analysis:
The man later admitted that the post was just a hoax. He told an Italian media outlet that the post was a ‘guerrilla marketing operation’ designed to promote his server management services startup.
Example:
I run a small hosting provider with more or less 1535 customers and I use Ansible to automate some operations to be run on all servers. Last night I accidentally ran, on all servers, a Bash script with a rm -rf {foo}/{bar} with those variables undefined due to a bug in the code above this line. All servers got deleted and the offsite backups too because the remote storage was mounted just before by the same script (that is a backup maintenance script). Original Source : http://www.hoax-slayer.net/deleted-entire-company-with-one-line-of-code-claim-turned-out-to-be-just-a-hoax/
I run a small hosting provider with more or less 1535 customers and I use Ansible to automate some operations to be run on all servers. Last night I accidentally ran, on all servers, a Bash script with a rm -rf {foo}/{bar} with those variables undefined due to a bug in the code above this line. All servers got deleted and the offsite backups too because the remote storage was mounted just before by the same script (that is a backup maintenance script). Original Source : http://www.hoax-slayer.net/deleted-entire-company-with-one-line-of-code-claim-turned-out-to-be-just-a-hoax/