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I had a similar one almost 12 years ago. Was deleting some old ftp users from a cpanel that hosted over 28 sites + mailboxes. The ftp user was created with home folder set at / (not even /public_html). I didn’t noticed and when the prompt telling me if I wanted to delete the ftp user home folder I pressed yes. Thanks god this took place at 1 am. By 2 am the hosting had already recover everything from the day before (which was a couple of hours away). No one ever found out.
Oh sh*t
It all makes sense now...
You know you are in silicon valley when you see an ad for redis
So I am running this crypto project that has dynamically generated private keys for a wallet stored in a Redis database. Nowhere else. The keys are generated on the fly.
At the moment of the happening the wallet had over 3.000 USD on it. I am testing new code locally, supposedly on a local Redis DB. Of a sudden, my code wipes the crypto keys and it turns out that I was connected to the live instance. 😱 Better don't ask me how.
Shock of my life. You know, when you turn pale and dark in your eyes, blood stops in your veins and you just want to die? Worst-case scenario that could have happened. All that money lost in crypto space.
Turns out, my good Redis hosting company kept backups for the past 7 days. Keys restored. Happiest moment of my life.
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