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Ukraine: Hack wiped 2 petabytes of data from Russian research center (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 7 months ago by robocall to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] robocall 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

* Tebibytes ** Pebibyte

[–] visnae 1 points 7 months ago

Tebibytes doesn't make sense, it should be Teribytes or Terribles (😁)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

This would be multiple storage servers worth of information most likely.

[–] partial_accumen 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This story is posted in Worldnews too. My response there:

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Nah, just gril the thing.

[–] Vriska 7 points 7 months ago (5 children)

These are just weather scientists? Were there really no better targets to come after? And why not steal the data instead if wiping it

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Entire military operations have failed due to weather, accurate weather forecasts are vital in both war and peace.

This is another small blow for Russia.

[–] JustUseMint 8 points 7 months ago

Extremely difficult to exfiltrate that much data undetected. I do agree that there are much better targets though. Huge loss for science

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

the way large amount of data is moved is physically moving the drives, because transfering it over the internet might take months or years. an online calculator says that it would take about 6 months to transfer 2pb over a 1 gigabit connection.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Weather and climate information is vital to war efforts.

And what are you gonna do with 2 Petabyte of raw meterological data, if you dont have meterologists?