The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense claims that pro-Ukrainian hacktivists breached the Russian Center for Space Hydrometeorology, aka "planeta" (планета), and wiped 2 petabytes of data.

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[–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I wish they could have stolen the data before they wiped it so it wasn’t lost, but that’s a lot of data to swipe.

Ukrainian hackers could cryptolocker it and exchange the keys for Ukrainian POWs.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I am sure somebody would get suspicious if the servers are on 100% CPU + IO to encrypt 2 petabytes especially if you encrypt the data in place.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    Yup, we have certain monitors in place for if a server is maxed out above ~90% CPU/memory utilization for a certain period of time. Wouldn't take that long for someone to realize if they were properly monitoring their systems.

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