corrupted
v.v. to make something worse or less pure by adding something bad. In computing, it means data has been changed or damaged so it no longer works correctly.
v. to impair the integrity, purity, or quality of something; in technical contexts, to alter data or files such that they become invalid or unreadable.
The virus corrupted my saved files.
A sudden power cut corrupted the database, so we had to restore it from a backup.
The ancient manuscript was corrupted by centuries of water damage, rendering many of its original passages illegible to modern scholars.
Transitive; typically used in the passive voice when describing data or files.
The file is corrupt.The file is corrupted.'Corrupt' is an adjective describing the state; 'corrupted' is the past participle verb form used to describe the action that caused the state.