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Weak password allowed hackers to sink a 158-year-old company (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 2 weeks ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/tech@programming.dev

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[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Never in the article is the novel idea of "backups" ever mentioned. If you treat your IT as an afterthought, your company will run into trouble eventually.

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The company said its IT complied with industry standards and it had taken out insurance against cyber-attack.

Backups and the 3-2-1 strategy have been industry standard for decades. What a load of crap.

[–] Senseless@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Plot twist: they operated by the 3-2-1 strategy but never tested if their backups could also be recovered.

[–] Zanathos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

And none of the backups were immutable.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago

Welp, the insurance apparently didn't do much to save them, either.

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