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

1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 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 10 months ago

Nah, just gril the thing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 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 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 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] 7 points 10 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] 6 points 10 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?

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

@Vriska @robocall (2 tb of data transfer might be observed by a monitoring system... So if you had the make the choice... Good...wipe everything Russian) #DestroyRussiaOnceAndForAll

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago