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.

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.

  • partial_accumenEnglish
    18•5 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
      English
      19•5 months ago

      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.

      • 🖖USS-EthernetEnglish
        4•5 months 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.