Datacenter Robbed for the Fourth Time in Two Years

mariushm writes "According to the Register, the Chicago-based colocation datacenter C I Host was attacked by armed intruders recently, making it the the fourth time in two years that armed thugs have made off with data. According to a letter C I Host officials sent customers, 'At least two masked intruders entered the suite after cutting into the reinforced walls with a power saw ... During the robbery, C I Host's night manager was repeatedly tazered and struck with a blunt instrument. After violently attacking the manager, the intruders stole equipment belonging to C I Host and its customers.' Aggravating the situation, C I Host representatives took several days to admit the most recent breach, according to several customers who said they lost equipment, all the while reporting the problems as 'router failures'."

Comments

Re:Obligatory...

[BoldAndBusted]

Don't tase me, bro!

Seriously, though, this sounds like something out of a really bad Hollywood B-Movie.

I didn't know you could do stuff like this in real life.

Well, most of American life these days is a really bad Hollywood B-Movie, unfortunately. One where civil liberties and the Constitution are tossed out like so much trash.

Re:Obligatory...

[funwithBSD]

Blah blah blah. Give me one example that is proven to be worse than it was 10 years ago, or twenty, or under J Edgar Hoover.

Don't even try the secret NSA wiretap crap, unless you think the Democrats are in on it... and if you do, get out the tinfoil beanie.

They were given full disclosure and when they walked out they had nothing to say to the reporters other than the usual bullcrap "civil liberties and the Constitution are tossed out like so much trash."

If they had something, they would have blurted it out right there and then and really won the 2006 midterm elections.

I love the bumper sticker that says "If 911 was an inside job, you would not be talking about it."

A tautology, but very funny.