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If they deleted the blockchain db from the nodes, this is still lost.
Blockchain doesn't have anything esp. to do with data loss. It solves exactly one problem which is distributed double spending in accounting ledgers.
Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
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Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
#62The same thing happened to Slovakia not that long ago.
The Slovak land register was hacked in January 2025. Hackers uknown encrypted the database, asking for an undisclosed 7-figure amount as ransom.
The whole country's real estate market was paralyzed for about a month. It took couple of months to restore everything from backups and paper agenda and resume normal operation of the land register office.
It was the largest cyber attack in Slovakia's history. The authorities to this day haven't provided any information on who might be behind it. The investigation is still ongoing. Several government figures including the PM were however very eager to immediately point on Ukraine, without any sort of proof.
Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Very old" could mean that they were not up to date. What did they do when the backups didn't match the actual situation at the time of the breach?
Property is not fluid and doesn't change hands very often. Sure, in a large enough market lots of activity happens every day, but any given property is only involved in a transaction once a decade. You can have very old backups and still capture the state of the market to 99%+. Any recent activity will have brokers, buyers, and sellers, who all have current copies of their activity. Also, this sort of event should re…
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
My reading is: "The agency would surely be panicking more than this if they didn't have an offline backup".
"Offline backup", as in "thousands of shelves full of dusty binders spread across offices all over the country"?
Yup. Everyone’s job safe for the next few years!
Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
#65Romanian friends have told me that this is really due to corruption. Specifically: - government gives IT/data contracts to cronies - cronies don't actually do any real security work to protect the data - things like this happen
Same thing is rampant in other Eastern European countries as well. Tips on how to address this for those of us that are publicly minded?
Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
#66> 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…
One more reason to to define the whole infrastructure in code and have offline backups. Recovering could be measured in hours.
> has entire infra in code
> spinning up a new shard takes a quarter
Both can be true
Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
#67What's wrong with an old fashioned paper registry then?
Rotting, sweaty human hands and fire to name a few.
Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I always thought the “you will own nothing” expression referred to a Gini coefficient of 1, not 0. The intent of abolishing private property would presumably be the latter.
Depends on if you're scaremongering about Capitalists or Commies.
That’s true. But in a world with monthly toothbrush subscriptions one of those end states feels much closer than the other.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Remember the xerox-scandal years back, that invalidated officially scanned documents. You already life in a world where "scanned before" means you can legally challenge the validity of a document.
Is this the scandal to which you are referring? https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23588202
Yes, several national archives where affected on all settings. If a institution scanned and archived documents with these- these documents are - in theory challenge-able in court- within reason..
Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
#70Romanian friends have told me that this is really due to corruption. Specifically: - government gives IT/data contracts to cronies - cronies don't actually do any real security work to protect the data - things like this happen
Same thing is rampant in other Eastern European countries as well. Tips on how to address this for those of us that are publicly minded?
I'd say form an IT firm and bid on government contracts and do honest work, but we all know how that goes in reality. Honest workers don't get the contracts. You can still try, though.