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what if your cloud=provider gets hacked ? (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all,

As self-hosting is not just "home-hosting" I guess this post should also be on-topic here.

Beginning of the year, bleeping-computers published an interesting post on the biggest cybersecurity stories of 2023.

Item 13 is an interesing one. (see URL of this post). Summary in short A Danish cloud-provider gets hit by a ransomware attack, encrypting not only the clients data, but also the backups.

For a user, this means that a senario where, not only your VM becomes unusable (virtual disk-storage is encrypted), but also the daily backups you made to the cloud-provider S3-storage is useless, might be not as far-fetches then what your think.

So .. conclussion ??? If you have VMs at a cloud-provider and do daily backups, it might be usefull to actually get your storage for these backups from a different provider then the one where your house your VMs.

Anybody any ideas or remarks on this?

(*) https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-biggest-cybersecurity-and-cyberattack-stories-of-2023/

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A data cloud backup loss should be fine, because it's a backup. Just re-up your local backup to a new cloud/second physical location, that's the whole point of two.

I don't see a need to run two conccurent cloud backups.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In this case, it is not you -as a customer- that gets hacked, but it was the cloud-company itself. The randomware-gang encrypted the disks on server level, which impacted all the customers on every server of the cloud-provider.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah absolutely, but tonyou as an individual , it's the same net effect of your cloud backup is lost. Just re-up your local backup to a different cloud provider.