I won’t blame cosmic rays but more likely dying RAM. The NAS now runs ECC memory.
The actual bug was unsafe code somewhere else in the application corrupting the memory. The application worked fine, but the log message strings were being slightly corrupted. Just a random letter here and there being something it shouldn't be.
The question really should have been, if this was truly cosmic interference, why only this service and why was the problem appearing more than once over multiple versions of the application?
Cosmic rays are a great excuse to problems you don't yet understand. But the reality of them is extremely rare and it's like 99% a memory corruption bug caused by application code.
I jest, but, once upon a time I worked with an infallible developer. When my projects crashed and burned, I would assume that it was my lack of competence and take that as my starting point. However, my colleague would assume that it was a stray neutrino that had flipped a bit to trigger the failure, even if it was a reproducible error.
He would then work backwards from 93 million miles away to blame the client, blame the linux kernel, blame the device drivers and finally, once all of that and the 'three letter agencies' were eliminated, perhaps consider the problem was between his keyboard and his chair.
In all fairness, he was a genius, and, regarding the A320 situation, he would have been spot on!