CASE STUDY 2: CORRUPTED FILES

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Files relating to a multimillion tender on a sales/marketing PC have been found to be corrupted. The PC was not on the network and not backed up. The IT group advises that the data is gone forever. The tender closes at the end of the month, which is only 12 days away. Management is assessing the options available. The only option appears to be to withdraw from the tender process. Their hardware supplier recommends an inquiry to a computer forensics data-recovery firm. The firm received the hard disk at 4:00 p.m. on Friday and had a CD-ROM containing the draft tender response, worksheets, subcontractor quotations, graphics files, and peripheral material on the client's premises by 11:00 a.m. on the following Monday.

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