This is why a hosting company needs to both segregate credentials to only what an employee needs for their job, as well as to revoke them the minute they leave the company.
Otherwise while the vast majority of your staff will be decent people and not cause problems like this, it just takes one angry ex staff member with a grudge to cause problems.
They also need to revise their backup system too. There should rarely if ever be a risk that any data is 'unrecoverable', yet their update says some data will just be impossible to get back.
As for the employee involved... well I hope they like the inevitable lawsuit their selfish, stupid actions will bring them. I don't care what you think of a company you worked for, there's no excuse to destroy their business through actions like this. Also, good luck getting any jobs in the industry after too. Because with this on your track record, no one will touch you with a ten foot bargepole.
Otherwise while the vast majority of your staff will be decent people and not cause problems like this, it just takes one angry ex staff member with a grudge to cause problems.
They also need to revise their backup system too. There should rarely if ever be a risk that any data is 'unrecoverable', yet their update says some data will just be impossible to get back.
As for the employee involved... well I hope they like the inevitable lawsuit their selfish, stupid actions will bring them. I don't care what you think of a company you worked for, there's no excuse to destroy their business through actions like this. Also, good luck getting any jobs in the industry after too. Because with this on your track record, no one will touch you with a ten foot bargepole.
So yeah, what a disaster all round.