Cable & Wireless is blaming the crash of Sainsbury's website on thieves nicking the copper from a computer network centre run by the outfit.
During the raid important gear was nicked, but Inspector Knacker of the Yard believes that the thieves were more interested in copper wire in the cabling. Rising copper prices have made scrap metal theft an attractive proposition for thieves as it has a high resale value.
Sainsbury's said that punters unable to gain access to its groceries website for a day.
Officially Cable and Wireless has put the problem down to 'network issues' although we are not sure if having your network cable stolen counts as an 'issue'.
Other than Sainsbury's a number of other clients who used the centre for managed hosting services were also taken down.
Still it makes a better excuse than 'sorry guv we tipped lager on the server during an all-night game of beer pong'.
Story source:
theinquirer.net.
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