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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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