I use to work for one of the biggest banks in my country. Datacenter was on the 5th floor, and suposedly the room was a bunker, concrete and steel walls. Access door was like a vault. Had to pass 3 doors, buzzed open with a smartcard. All servers containing customer accounts, money, credit card data.. everything a bank manages where in here. One day the bank execs where bragging about the security of the datacenter, that it would stand an airplane crashing in to it and blah blah.. The next week a large Fishtank they had on the 6th floor offices broke, spilling gallons and gallons of water (not to say unlucky goldfish)...Water leaked down, all hell broke loose in the "bunker" it was literally raining inside. Had to put all plastic covers over servers, open all vault doors, shut down the bank's operation to clean up and save servers without loosing data. Execs didn't comment about the incident.
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I use to work for one of the biggest banks in my country. Datacenter was on the 5th floor, and suposedly the room was a bunker, concrete and steel walls. Access door was like a vault. Had to pass 3 doors, buzzed open with a smartcard. All servers containing customer accounts, money, credit card data.. everything a bank manages where in here. One day the bank execs where bragging about the security of the datacenter, that it would stand an airplane crashing in to it and blah blah.. The next week a large Fishtank they had on the 6th floor offices broke, spilling gallons and gallons of water (not to say unlucky goldfish) ...Water leaked down, all hell broke loose in the "bunker" it was literally raining inside. Had to put all plastic covers over servers, open all vault doors, shut down the bank's operation to clean up and save servers without loosing data. Execs didn't comment about the incident.