Hello and welcome to Tech Minute. Today, we’ve got a story that sounds like the punchline of a bad joke: an IT administrator walked into his company’s datacenter armed not with backup drives or replacement parts, but with a cordless drill. According to court documents, the admin proceeded to physically bore through hard disks in multiple servers, literally drilling holes straight through the platters. The result was a cascading failure that took down an entire datacenter, disrupting services for hundreds of customers.

In his defense, the admin reportedly told investigators, “I thought the drill would speed up the removal of bad disks,” a quote that has since gone viral in IT circles. His employer called the incident “absolutely unprecedented,” adding that they’ve never seen hardware destruction done with power tools. Now facing charges of criminal damage and service disruption, the administrator could be looking at significant fines or even jail time.

That’s it for this edition of Tech Minute—proof that sometimes, the biggest tech disasters aren’t software bugs or cyberattacks, but a human holding a drill. Thanks for listening, and stay safe out there.
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