• XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
    8 hours

    Unsurprisingly, centralizing your data between the private and public sector means everything is vulnerable at a centralized location.

    The exposed materials include files labeled ‘secret’ in Chinese

    In Chinese?!

    whoa.

    • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8 minutes

      That may be uncompressed (and text and similar data compress really well).

      Otherwise my bigger question is how did they transfer 10PB with no one noticing

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.caEnglish
      6 hours

      Minivan full of usb keys. Probably still the fastest data transfer method too.

      • sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4 hours

        If you were using 1tb micro SD cards you could fit them in a briefcase or two. It’d only cost $2 million at retail value of $200/card.

        • AzuraTheSpellkissed@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          3 hours

          $200/card? What are those, legitimate western numbers?/s You can find “2TB” SD cards on AliExpress/etc for $3. Increasing the capacity to 1PT shouldn’t be much more than a minor change in the firmware.

    • mushroommunk@lemmy.todayEnglish
      8 hours

      Not to mention the logistics of transferring that much data alone. You need a high enough network speed to snag it all before being caught.

      • slowtrain33@lemmy.mlEnglish
        7 hours

        Just imagine the number of PUTs. I’ll bet it was mostly 100kb log files too. Them hackers gonna wish they never rsync’d that one. lmao

    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8 hours

      I’m guessing that they wouldn’t actually store that amount of data. Probably processing it on the fly and discarding a majority of it.

  • in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.socialEnglish
    8 hours

    Curious to see if another LeakBase will pop up around this. I’m already hearing rumors that a lot of it was AI training data but that’s unfounded squiddy speak on social media.

  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.todayEnglish
    8 hours

    you’d need a data center just to hold that much information! it’s not like your using cloud storage for this, this is an expensive payload

    • bright@piefed.socialEnglish
      7 hours

      A petabyte is 1000 terabytes. There are commercial hard drives that are over 30 tb. So 33 of these drives hold 1 pb. Times ten makes 330 hard drives to hold 10 pb. All of those drives together would take up just one third of a single full height server rack like this.

      https://www.quantumtechnologyequipment.net/products/s6llst3137

      So not only wouldn’t it need a whole data center, in fact it wouldn’t even need a whole server room, and actually wouldn’t even need a whole server closet!

      I calculated this all out only because I’m procrastinating😆

    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8 hours

      With modern high capacity drives, it’s possible to have that storage in a single rack. If would probably be about $500,000 worth of drives though.

      • ryannathans@aussie.zoneEnglish
        7 hours

        $242k AUD if using the bare minimum number of HP 14TB enterprise drives (cheapest I can currently find)

        Throw in some redundancy and call it $250k AUD or $179k USD