Me 3 hours ago when an URGENT email came in and I discovered a coworker ran the Blancco drive eraser on 800+ workstations by mistake.
Sweet black fucking sabbath.
Me: Here is where you check to make sure you're running this test on only 1 endpoint.
Them: Okay great, deploy to 835 endpoints, are you sure, you have to type 835 into this box to proceed, yes.. typing 835 into box to proceed.
Straight up, I cried a lot today.
This sounds really painful. Hope there were backups.
(I've worked for a place that relied for a while on the individuals to do backups but didn't give them the tools or promptings to do backups. Do not recommend.)
@misterfive @GlytchMeister the wipe didn't go though despite being pushed out to 800+ endpoints. I have since deleted the software package and told management we will not be running this process from my side ever again. This is now a one off.. direct hands on engineer operation from now on.
Oh thank FUCK, so 800+ workstations didn’t ACTUALLY get wiped?
HOOOOO boy, that’s a butt puckerer, right there
@GlytchMeister @misterfive yeah.. it didn't happen though a miracle of incompetence