The thing that was not supposed to happen again happened on the night between December 25 and 26, 2004: The PublicWare server was stolen.

The first PublicWare server disappeared on the night between July 8 and 9. This led to a reversion of the physical security around the server, to ensure that something similar could not happen again. A new server was purchased and on October 14 the PublicWare website was moved to the new server. Unfortunately the server only got a little more than 100 days online, before it suffered the same fate as the first PublicWare server.

The security around the server had been improved, but unfortunately not all initiatives had been implemented. When the burglar also went more physical to work, the new server also disappeared.

The latest burglary does that the security plan ones again is being scrutinized. This time the reversion will be followed by a considerably investment and a faster implementation. The server security should thereby be improved considerably, and this time the result will be that the next server under no circumstances should end up with the same fate as the previous servers.

Even though the reversion after the first burglary did not prevent the second server from disappearing, it has however proved its value. The second burglary did not result in the loss of data, because the data backups this time was more detailed and all PublicWare data could therefore be restored. At the same time an emergency plan was in place, so the PublicWare website and email system was back online after only one and a half day, which is significant better then the 3.5 days that followed the first burglary.