It’s a fairly safe bet that on any given day, at least a good dozen IT departments are trying to convince their bosses and/or users about the vital importance of backups. Unfortunately, it seems that the argument was lost in the South Korean government, as the institution has completely lost the sizable amount of 858 terabytes of data, with 0 bytes of backups.
I don’t think you understand how inept government or law enforcement is… demonstrably… with centuries of evidence…
Insurance fraud and corruption ARE the simplest explanation for a lot of these kinds of “accidents”.
Which is more likely? Many people failing to do their jobs, or a small corrupt few going, “whoopsie!”?
If they’re that inept then they wouldn’t have been able to pull off this vast plot that includes hundreds of people doing it over many years