A catastrophic fire at South Korea’s National Information Resources Service data center has crippled 647 government systems for nearly a week, with 96 directly destroyed and 551 shut down preemptively, exposing critical vulnerabilities in disaster recovery execution and battery safety protocols that analysts say should prompt immediate CIO attention worldwide. The September 26 incident, triggered when a lithium-ion battery exploded during routine UPS maintenance at the facility in Daejeon, ...
