Battery fire destroys South Korea's government data centre
A lithium-ion battery fire burned for about 22 hours, taking down 709 government systems and destroying 858TB of data that had no backup. All systems were restored after about 95 days, by 30 December 2025.
- Service
- South Korea NIRS
- Date
- 26 September 2025
- Cause
- Power / fire
- Duration
- Not stated or multi-day
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- critical
- Region
- Global
- Source
- Seoul Economic Daily ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Battery fire destroys South Korea's government data centre”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 26 Sep 2025. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2025-09-26-south-korea-nirs-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: Seoul Economic Daily, https://en.sedaily.com/finance/2026/03/23/koreas-digital-blackout-restored-after-95-days-leaving.
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