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.

  • @robocallOP
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    1011 months ago

    1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte

      • @visnae
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        111 months ago

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

  • partial_accumen
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    911 months ago

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

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

  • @Vriska
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    711 months ago

    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]
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      1311 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
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      811 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]
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      711 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.