By Matthew DunnWhen you have a start-up with $32.9 million in funding and handle valuable customer data, it's probably not the best look to go offline because an employee accidentally deleted your database. This is what happened to high-profile Silicon Valley start-up GitLab - a virtual workspace for programmers to merge individual projects. The problem with the service started when spammers were hammering the database, making it unstable. We accidentally deleted production data and might have to restore from backup. — Adam Caudill (@adamcaudill) February 1, 2017While noticing the error quickly, the start-up was unable to fully restore all of the data.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 02, 2017 17:22 UTC