Latest Data Loss news

Ukraine: Hack wiped 2 petabytes of data from Russian research center

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.
- Bill Toulas
- January 26, 2024
- 11:59 AM
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Google shares “fix” for deleted Google Drive files

Google says it identified and fixed a bug causing customer files added to Google Drive after April-May 2023 to disappear. However, the fix isn't working for all affected users.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- December 08, 2023
- 03:36 PM
- 1
Google Drive users angry over losing months of stored data

Google Drive users are reporting that recent files stored in the cloud have suddenly disappeared, with the cloud service reverting to a storage snapshot as it was around April-May 2023.
- Bill Toulas
- November 27, 2023
- 09:52 AM
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Atlassian warns of critical Confluence flaw leading to data loss

Australian software company Atlassian warned admins to immediately patch Internet-exposed Confluence instances against a critical security flaw that could lead to data loss following successful exploitation.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 31, 2023
- 02:04 PM
- 0
Angry IT admin wipes employer’s databases, gets 7 years in prison

Han Bing, a former database administrator for Lianjia, a Chinese real-estate brokerage giant, has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for logging into corporate systems and deleting the company's data.
- Bill Toulas
- May 14, 2022
- 11:18 AM
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Hetzner lost customer data and gave 20€ as compensation

Hetzner Online GmbH, a German cloud services provider, told some customers this week that their data had been irreversibly lost and were provided a 20€ compensation in online credit.
- Bill Toulas
- April 14, 2022
- 10:12 AM
- 1
University loses 77TB of research data due to backup error

The Kyoto University in Japan has lost about 77TB of research data due to an error in the backup system of its Hewlett-Packard supercomputer.
- Bill Toulas
- December 30, 2021
- 11:02 AM
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OVH data center fire likely caused by faulty UPS power supply

OVH founder and chairman Octave Klaba has provided a plausible explanation for the fire that burned down OVH data centers in Strasbourg, France.
- Ax Sharma
- March 12, 2021
- 02:45 AM
- 0
OVH data center burns down knocking major sites offline

In a major unprecedented incident, data centers of OVH located in Strasbourg, France have been destroyed by fire. Customers are being advised by the company to enact their disaster recovery plans after the fire has rendered multiple data centers unserviceable, impacting websites around the world.
- Ax Sharma
- March 10, 2021
- 03:08 AM
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Ransomware attacks increasingly destroy victims’ data by mistake

More and more ransomware victims are resisting the extortionists and refuse to pay when they can recover from backups, despite hackers' threats to leak the data stolen before encryption.
- Ionut Ilascu
- February 04, 2021
- 03:21 AM
- 0
Shopify data breach illustrates the danger of insider threats

A recent data breach at Shopify that affected almost 200 merchants has been attributed to insiders.
- Ax Sharma
- September 23, 2020
- 11:13 AM
- 0
Suspicious Canon outage leads to image.canon data loss

Canon's image.canon cloud storage service has resumed operations after an almost six-day outage that led to data loss for stored images and videos.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 04, 2020
- 02:33 PM
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