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Top 10 IT Disasters of All-Time
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Some of the biggest disasters ever were caused by faulty software, hardware or some sort of technology. Here are the biggest ones ever:
| 1. | Faulty Soviet early warning system nearly causes WWIII (1983) |
| 2. | the loss of the personal records of some 25 million child benefit recipients by Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs this month (2007) |
| 3. | The AT&T network collapse (1990) |
| 4. | The explosion of the Ariane 5 (1996) |
| 5. | Airbus A380 suffers from incompatible software issues (2006) |
| 6. | Mars Climate Observer metric problem (1998) |
| 7. | EDS and the Child Support Agency (2004) |
| 8. | The two-digit year-2000 problem (1999/2000) |
| 9. | When the laptops exploded (2006) |
| 10. | Siemens and the passport system (1999) |
| 11. | LA Airport flights grounded (2007) |
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