Ukraine’s HUR Cyber Strike Shuts Down Russian Military University, Erases 150TB of Critical Data
Ukraine’s HUR Cyber Strike Shuts Down Russian Military University, Erases 150TB of Critical Data
150TB????? Holy fuck. I wonder what sort of stuff one institution even stores in 150TB of data?
Maybe all the students shared drives? I know I had a couple hundred GB in mine.
150TB isn't unheard of for an institution. Some users here have more than that in their homelabs.
Confirming, I have 200TB in home lab and know plenty of others with around this amount:
Depends on what the data was for criticality, not the amount of data. Many orgs, even in smaller countries, have petabytes of data now.
High resolution still images and video will get you there pretty easily.
A few seasons of TV shows.
A good reason why when aquiring TV shows "completely legitimately" i always stick to 720p or 1080p if i reaaaaallly like the show.
Hard drives are expensive
Training videos might do it
I've got a good 5 TB of games. It's not that crazy an amount of data.
150TB doesn't seem like a lot for a whole university. Am I missing something?
I have no idea what is or isn't a lot of data for a university beyond scaling how much stuff is on my own PC up by a few tens of thousand times, but surely it depends on what data was attacked? Like promotional / staff training content that's largely in video form would be a lot of space with very little consequence, but 150 TB of student records and research data that's all just databases would be a fucktonne of important stuff gone
I have no idea what is or isn’t a lot of data for a university beyond scaling how much stuff is on my own PC
Yeah, judged on a "home user" scale 150TB may seem like a lot but it really isn't when you're talking about Government / University / Enterprise.
Just one of the servers I have under management is currently using 49TB and there's another one in that rack using 40TB. That ~90TB (over half of what's in the article) for just two servers in a single rack at a single company.
You only have 5 GB on your PC? How do you survive?
It's not. I work at a research university and while our critical systems are much less than that—mostly datasets and documents—repositories for research and knowledge management information are full of media that's well over 150TB.
But...
destroying over 150 terabytes of enemy resources, including websites, databases, and file storage.
If it's more the databases, yeah, that's some huge damage. An information system holding 100GB of data could be the source of 20 years of pay, employee, org structure, access governance, IDs, the lot; gone. And all dependent systems to it go blind because they use that database to work, rather than storing their own copy of it.
However, we also daily backup those critical systems in multiple ways. This includes for ransomware. It can be destroyed and it doesn't matter unless the hacker knew about and was able to also hack an entirely different setup geographically located somewhere else with its own security and network independent to what we primarily rely on. A lot of our data is, by law, scheduled and retained on government systems too, but only every few months. So there's yet another hard hurdle to find out and attempt to breach. Get all three at once, yeah, you got us, but what an impressive and mammoth hack that would be.
When I was in school we had 1tb onedrive subscriptions provided by the school for about 3k people not including teachers. 150tb does seem quite small unless each student only gets 250gb or 500gb of storage
When I was in school, back in the day, we had about 10 GB of storage for ~10,000 students.
We allowed 100 MB per student, but didn't have even remotely enough space for them all to use that much. Probably 50-60% never even logged in.
Yes we backed it up to tape and could restore it as needed.
Because like 99% of the users don't use more than a couple hundred megabytes.
I’m sure their backups are in as good a condition as their trucks and nuclear missiles.
If only they had access to AWS or Azure who both have physical data transfer options..
My TBs of backups took months to go over my 1Gbps fiber.
My giant workplace had a data problem and had to restore from tape. We had a week off and things weren't all back and working for months