Security News > 2021 > August > Dallas cops lost 8TB of criminal case data during bungled migration, says the DA... four months later

A bungled data migration of a network drive caused the deletion of 22 terabytes of information from a US police force's systems - including case files in a murder trial, according to local reports.

Dallas Police Department confessed to the information blunder last week, revealing in a statement that a data migration exercise carried out at the end of the 2020-21 financial year deleted vast amounts of data from a network drive.

"On August 6, 2021, the Dallas Police Department and City of Dallas Information and Technology Services Department informed the administration of this Office that in April 2021, the City discovered that multiple terabytes of DPD data had been deleted during a data migration of a DPD network drive," said a statement [PDF] from the Dallas County prosecutor's office.

The migration, which took place between 31 March and 5 April, actually destroyed 22TB of data.

Meanwhile the local mayor, Eric Johnson, said he was "Blindsided" by the data loss.

In France, cloud operator OVH suffered an equally catastrophic data loss after a fire in March gutted one of its data centres in Strasbourg.

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