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Re:AWS Frankfurt incident by toyg on Friday June 11, 2021 @06:31AM (#27471478)
In the first season of Mr Robot, when they want to create financial chaos by wiping records of all debt, iirc they trigger a fire alert in a datacenter to force a backup wipe of some sort.
Re:AWS Frankfurt incident by freeflight on Friday June 11, 2021 @10:37AM (#27473960)
They pretty much ransomwared all the digital records on the E Corp servers by encrypting them.

The paper records they destroyed by blowing up a whole building, with hacked UPS systems. [0]

[0] https://www.geekwire.com/2016/mr-robot-rewind-pwning-battery...