Did a spilt can of COKE cause the City computer blackout that brought the world's financial markets

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Did a spilt can of COKE cause the City computer blackout that brought the world's financial markets to a standstill?
Huge computer glitch prevented deals in stock exchanges across the world
Bloomberg down for several hours just after trading began this morning
Europe and Asia thrown into chaos after server crashed in London office
And reports from inside the company say a spilt can of Coke was to blame


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...nancial-markets-standstill.html#ixzz3XbSGLw5X
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Didn't read the article. Premise seems like BS. I cannot imagine that the software driving trading exchanges could be reliant on a single server. That's nuts.
 
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