IT Baseline Protection Manual - The Information Warfare Site

Threats Catalogue Deliberate Acts Remarks
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T 4.29 Loss of data in a database caused by a lack of
storage space
Every storage medium has a limited capacity for holding data. This also
applies to databases which need to incorporate a physical storage medium to
allow the long term storage of data. Once this storage medium is exhausted,
the database might crash and result in a loss of data. The consequences of this
are described in T 4.28 Loss of data in a database.
The capacity of a storage medium can suddenly be exhausted for a variety of
reasons, e.g. errors in application programs, increased memory requirements
by users, as well as deliberate intrusions aimed at lowering the storage
capacity in order to disable auditing:
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IT-Baseline Protection Manual: Oktober 2000