Reddit users noticed that the long-standing social network MySpace had lost all user-uploaded data from 2003 to 2015 (including music, photos, and videos).
For the first time, the fact that the old data was no longer available was discovered last February, but it interested almost no one, and representatives of the social network stated that they were working on the problem. Eventually, MySpace employees later admitted that they had lost all user data for a certain period, but this went unnoticed. Then, in response to a user’s request, MySpace’s experts stated in a letter that when information was transferred to new servers, the data was corrupted and impossible to recover. Clearly, the company did not have backup copies.
Now, a year later, a Reddit user gathered all these facts and once again tried to draw attention to the problem. This time, it worked: now, the notification of the lost data has appeared on MySpace’s official website and in the media player, and the incident has been widely reported.
Andy Baio (Andy Baio), former CTO of Kickstarter, calculated that in total, the company had lost about 50 million songs by 14 million artists. Baio writes that what happened makes him suspicious, because the blatant incompetence that MySpace’s developers displayed is, of course, poor communication, yet it still seems better than the response. “.
