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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 figassis »

bjoli wrote: post #14

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 solutio…

Restic on object storage outside your infra. It's what I do and I think it should be safe from ransomware.

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

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Post by qeternity »

PrimeMcFly wrote: post #21

The solution to ransomware? Backups. It's not more complicated than that. It's honestly puzzling that ransomware is the issue it is, crippling entire organizations. It just means they have inept IT teams. Sucks this Danish cloud host provider didn't back stuff up properly.

At a certain scale, full backups aren't feasible, and people should be implementing their own backups on top of any cloud services.

Backups of the dataplane should of course exist.

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

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Post by benterix »

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.

If they are not incremental but append only, an air gap is not strictly needed and can be used as an additional safeguard performed less frequently because of manual overhead. The crux of the matter is to assume the main system has been compromised and preventing overwriting existing data.

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

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Post by konschubert »

andrewstuart wrote: post #22

Unfortunate turn of events. I find it really hard to have empathy for serious businesses who don’t have backups and are dependent on a single cloud. Like for example if you are all in on AWS and do all your backups of your AWS systems to AWS then lose your account. Meh… your fault. If you run a business then you have an absolute obligation to be able to instantly bring your business back up outside your primary hosti…

At this standard, many small online businesses would not be possible.

I think that would be a loss.

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

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Post by candiodari »

benterix wrote: post #29
akasakahakada wrote: post #13

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 o…

I don't know why you are being downvoted, maybe people don't like the form, but the fact that device manufacturers are removing useful features such as the ability to expand the storage of your device is infuriating.

Because this makes life difficult for developers, for no good reason. Developers simply shouldn't have the access necessary to make these attacks succeed.

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

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Post by cudder »

akasakahakada wrote: post #13

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 o…

> Meanwhile SIM card slot do not introduce water leak because obviously there is magic.

Don't worry, they're doing their best to get rid of those too.

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

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Post by tuhriel »

benterix wrote: post #29
akasakahakada wrote: post #13

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 o…

I don't know why you are being downvoted, maybe people don't like the form, but the fact that device manufacturers are removing useful features such as the ability to expand the storage of your device is infuriating.

But, but if you can just add a microSD with 128gb for 20-40 bucks, how can the poor vendor upsell you an upgrade for 200 extra?

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

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Post by smarx007 »

Shoddy journalism strikes again. How do we know that all data was lost and the notice on the homepage was not uploaded by hackers?

"CloudNordic could not be reached for comment." It's a journalist's job to reach either the company or affected customers to verify the facts.

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