Maybe on one of those drives that fake their size and at some point begin overwriting previous data. Metadata still there, but content of earlier files completely corrupt. /s
$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.
Maybe… or they could run up a credit card and bounce on the bill. The guy wasn’t asking for a lot of money, which indicates to me that they either want finances fast or they want to wash their hands fast.
Where do you even store 10 PB of data?
Maybe on one of those drives that fake their size and at some point begin overwriting previous data. Metadata still there, but content of earlier files completely corrupt. /s
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
Siphoning. Really slowly.
Tricked it out. Naw mean?
On your fidget spinner usb drive from a trade show
Minivan full of usb keys. Probably still the fastest data transfer method too.
“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a uhaul truck”
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.
$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.
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.
Social engineering and Sneakernet
Sneakernet? More like forktrucknet
You could probably spread the exfil across a botnet of some kind, since I imagine the data will survive being chunked.
Tapes
They’re selling those on AliExpress
Hackers must have insane S3 bills
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
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.
Maybe… or they could run up a credit card and bounce on the bill. The guy wasn’t asking for a lot of money, which indicates to me that they either want finances fast or they want to wash their hands fast.