Saw this the other day and thought it was kind of funny, which might be cruel. 
Curious if anyone else has stories like this and what they did?
Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code | News | Lifestyle | The Independent
Brief overview is this:
A man appears to have deleted his entire company with one mistaken piece of code.
By accidentally telling his computer to delete everything in his servers, hosting provider Marco Marsala has seemingly removed all trace of his company and the websites that he looks after for his customers.
Mr Marsala wrote on a forum for server experts called Server Fault that he was now stuck after having accidentally run destructive code on his own computers, in a post that he has since claimed was a joke but reflected a real experience with a client. But far from advising them how to fix it, most experts informed him that he had just accidentally deleted the data of his company and its clients, and in so doing had probably destroyed his entire company with just one line of code.
The problem command was "rm -rf": a basic piece of code that will delete everything it is told to. The “rm” tells the computer to remove; the r deletes everything within a given directory; and the f stands for “force”, telling the computer to ignore the usual warnings that come when deleting files.
Go to the article for the rest of the details...
