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Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by skinfaxi »

> Since the hack, officials restored their website and posted a message announcing they are rebuilding the agency's entire network from scratch. Even if the hacker claims they deleted backups, the agency appears to have had an offline copy, otherwise things would have gotten really messy over the coming months in Romania.

So it seems not all has been lost. I was worried about the societal implications of being unable to prove land ownership but it seems that may be avoided.

Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by chasd00 »

skinfaxi wrote: post #5

> Since the hack, officials restored their website and posted a message announcing they are rebuilding the agency's entire network from scratch. Even if the hacker claims they deleted backups, the agency appears to have had an offline copy, otherwise things would have gotten really messy over the coming months in Romania. So it seems not all has been lost. I was worried about the societal implications of being unable…

now they get to do a greenfield implementation too!

/joking, i'm sure this is not a happy time for whoever is trying to rebuild everything

Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by ddoolin »

skinfaxi wrote: post #5

> Since the hack, officials restored their website and posted a message announcing they are rebuilding the agency's entire network from scratch. Even if the hacker claims they deleted backups, the agency appears to have had an offline copy, otherwise things would have gotten really messy over the coming months in Romania. So it seems not all has been lost. I was worried about the societal implications of being unable…

I wonder why the say "appears to have had," is that an assumption or was it stated somewhere? Without an offline backup, it would indeed be a very serious problem, more than it already is.

Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by n4r9 »

ddoolin wrote: post #8
skinfaxi wrote: post #5

> Since the hack, officials restored their website and posted a message announcing they are rebuilding the agency's entire network from scratch. Even if the hacker claims they deleted backups, the agency appears to have had an offline copy, otherwise things would have gotten really messy over the coming months in Romania. So it seems not all has been lost. I was worried about the societal implications of being unable…

I wonder why the say "appears to have had," is that an assumption or was it stated somewhere? Without an offline backup, it would indeed be a very serious problem, more than it already is.

My reading is: "The agency would surely be panicking more than this if they didn't have an offline backup".
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