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Danish cloud host says customers ‘lost all data’ after ransomware attack

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Re: Danish cloud host says customers ‘lost all data’ after ransomware attack

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Post by Ekaros »

dusted wrote: post #6

Yesterday, All those backups seemed a waste of pay. Now my database has gone away. Oh I believe in yesterday. Suddenly, There's not half the files there used to be, And there's a milestone hanging over me The system crashed so suddenly. I pushed something wrong What it was I could not say. Now all my data's gone and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay. Yesterday, The need for back-ups seemed so far away. I knew my data was…

Also temporally separated. That is you must have backup that is beyond attackers time horizon. This is only way to get back at least something.

Re: Danish cloud host says customers ‘lost all data’ after ransomware attack

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Post by dusted »

Ekaros wrote: post #11
dusted wrote: post #6

Yesterday, All those backups seemed a waste of pay. Now my database has gone away. Oh I believe in yesterday. Suddenly, There's not half the files there used to be, And there's a milestone hanging over me The system crashed so suddenly. I pushed something wrong What it was I could not say. Now all my data's gone and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay. Yesterday, The need for back-ups seemed so far away. I knew my data was…

Also temporally separated. That is you must have backup that is beyond attackers time horizon. This is only way to get back at least something.

Absolutely!

Re: Danish cloud host says customers ‘lost all data’ after ransomware attack

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Post by akasakahakada »

Still cloud is better after all. 32GB is enough for all digital device and shooting 8k videos for 1000 centuries. No one should make backups. Storage expansion especially SD card must not be allowed on phone, tablet and laptop. Local storage is not secure and adding sd card to phone will introduce water leak. Meanwhile SIM card slot do not introduce water leak because obviously there is magic. Also SD slot is waste of internal space. You might ask why tablet is big as hell but still no SD card slot. Because those extra space is for storing mana to dispel water while adding the cloud subscription debuff to the users. Magic protect our phones from water, bullet, brick, bad OTA update, damage of USB port, lack of OTG functionality, USB2.0 transfer rate, terrible MTP interface, eavesdroping from wireless, etc.

* Just a rant and parody

Re: Danish cloud host says customers ‘lost all data’ after ransomware attack

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Post by bjoli »

I set up an append only storage for a friend recently and his son downloaded some kind of game related cheat thing online and it encrypted his harddrive, his backup usb harddrive, his cloud storage and his NAS.

The little restic backup saved him. It pushed one copy of nonsense, but kept several revisions of the old data.

On a similar note: does anyone have any experience with mdisc? They seem like the perfect solution for long time storage for me at the moment.

Re: Danish cloud host says customers ‘lost all data’ after ransomware attack

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Post by Enderboi »

beardyw wrote: post #4
macmac wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to the company the attacker managed to encrypt both the primary and secondary backup systems.

Backups need an air gap.

I often have people complain after comparing my works instance pricing to other cloud providers...

Then try to explain that rotating a few dozen TB of data offsite to cold offline storage every week isn't cheap. Because unlike some vendors, we take pride in data integrity and ensuring that our DR plan is actually.... you know, recoverable :P

Re: Danish cloud host says customers ‘lost all data’ after ransomware attack

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Post by bombolo »

theshrike79 wrote: post #7
jhoelzel wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the 1 in the 3-2-1 should be somewhere on premise or at least not directly reachable from the internet. Think: ssh cron job that copies backups from cloud to cold storage

And what if the backup you're copying to cold storage is also encrypted? How did the saying go? You don't have backups until you've successfully restored from them or something like that. =) Basically any 3-2-1 system is Schrödinger's backup until you've actually used it.

So you only have 1 backup that you daily overwrite?

Re: Danish cloud host says customers ‘lost all data’ after ransomware attack

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Post by sassy_quat »

ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #18
tyingq wrote: post #15

" there was no evidence that customer data was copied out or exfiltrated from its systems" ...after a thorough analysis of the now encrypted logs?

More likely looking at network traffic

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