The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense claims that pro-Ukrainian hacktivists breached the Russian Center for Space Hydrometeorology, aka “planeta” (планета), and wiped 2 petabytes of data.

  • Vriska@lemmy.world
    81·
    10 months ago

    These are just weather scientists? Were there really no better targets to come after? And why not steal the data instead if wiping it

    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
      141·
      10 months ago

      Entire military operations have failed due to weather, accurate weather forecasts are vital in both war and peace.

      This is another small blow for Russia.

    • reddithalation@sopuli.xyz
      7·
      10 months ago

      the way large amount of data is moved is physically moving the drives, because transfering it over the internet might take months or years. an online calculator says that it would take about 6 months to transfer 2pb over a 1 gigabit connection.

    • JustUseMint@lemmy.world
      7·
      10 months ago

      Extremely difficult to exfiltrate that much data undetected. I do agree that there are much better targets though. Huge loss for science