well, this makes the case for offsite backup:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7019644.stm

Update: its stuff like this that make for using somekind of proccess that auto backs up to a offsite storage. there are wb services that can do this now. I think, if you have really important data at home you need to have a multi layer backup plan that includes offsite.

-Nex6