The Air Force now says it will be able to recover those 100,000 investigation files dating back to 2004, after “aggressively leveraging all vendor and department capabilities.” An anonymous reader quotes a report from Government Executive about the mysteriously corrupted database:
In a short, four-sentence statement released midday on Wednesday, service officials said the Air Force continues to investigate the embarrassing incident in which the files and their backups were corrupted. “Through extensive data recovery efforts over the weekend and this week, the Air Force has been able to regain access to the data in the Air Force Inspector General Automated Case Tracking System…” the statement reads. Earlier on Wednesday, the Air Force chief of staff said that the effort to recover the files involved Lockheed Martin and Oracle, the two defense contractors that run the database, plus Air Force cyber and defense cyber crime personnel.

The Chief of Staff hopes “there won’t be a long-term impact, other than making sure we understand exactly what happened, how it happened and how we keep it from ever happening again.” The Air Force is conducting an independent review, while Lockheed Martin is now also performing a separate internal review.

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