A particular catastrophic event that occured occurred in April of 2007 approximately a year after the initial Gold release of Wurm (those JK-Home and Wild maps now referred to as Goldv1 or Gold-1). The server hard-drives were damaged beyond recovery, and the only surviving backups dated back to January of that year.
As a result of the lost data, both maps were reset a month later with those premium players compensated with respective amounts of [[trinket|trinkets]] and what purchased silver was on record. In addition, steps were taken to ensure that the previous loss of the backups will not occur again.