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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 embedding-shape »

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.

I think the "offline" part is what is that "appears" to be, clearly they have backups somewhere, but maybe the attacker just missed to wipe some other "online" location.

Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by jankubica »

boringg wrote: post #9
Squarex wrote: post #3

The same thing happened to Slovakia not that long ago.

how did they solve it?

it took months to go back fully online. they also had usable backups (so they used those for the data), but the infrastructure had so many vulnerabilities that they had to fix it first, hence the delay

Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by ajsnigrutin »

nananana9 wrote: post #4
ExoticPearTree wrote: post #2

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Shooting people in the head because they're not wearing a helmet is still a crime.

But you still get fined if you don't wear a helmet

In an ideal world, even before you crash your motorcycle and hit your head somewhere, forcing you to start wearing it

Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by nicman23 »

chasd00 wrote: post #7
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

i think it is a very happy time charging whatever per hour you want

Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by InsideOutSanta »

nananana9 wrote: post #4
ExoticPearTree wrote: post #2

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Shooting people in the head because they're not wearing a helmet is still a crime.

What's even funnier is getting upset about people not wearing helmets the second you hear about an accident, with no idea whether people did or did not wear helmets. All the article says is that "the hacker entered using valid credentials." There's no information about how they got the credentials.

Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by stellamariesays »

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…

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Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by busterarm »

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #15
nananana9 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shooting people in the head because they're not wearing a helmet is still a crime.

But you still get fined if you don't wear a helmet In an ideal world, even before you crash your motorcycle and hit your head somewhere, forcing you to start wearing it

I'll never forget this one video. A cyclist riding with a helmet on was doing everything proper -- helmeted, obeying traffic laws, riding in the proper part of the road...

Then a city bus passes them far too close. The passenger side mirror of the bus catches the rider's helmet and speeds off...carrying the cyclist off of their bike and dangling by their helmet at speed...

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