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User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC
A company vice president reported a hacker named 'General Failure' was accessing his files, but a sysadmin clarified the error message indicated a disk failure. The sysadmin, Lee, resolved the issue by diagnosing hardware problems instead of a security breach.
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