Thread 106807695

South Korea's entire government "cloud" storage just got nuked. No back ups or copies. Dozens of Petabytes worth of national security level government storage gone permanently. Probably the worse cyber security incident over the last 50 years.

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-10-01/national/socialAffairs/NIRS-fire-destroys-governments-cloud-storage-system-no-backups-available/2412936

>>106807695 (OP)
>No back ups
I shouldn't be shaming someone of what I do.

>>106807695 (OP)
>no backups
kolega is excavator driver but can set up a server for cheap for you

And? It's like someone losing his collection of made up collectible pocket animal pets cards. South corea is like Latvia, not a real country. The big nose fellows will just make up a new history for it.

>>106807695 (OP)
Like 10% of the businesses in the world have secondary-site backups

>>106807756
qrd latvia?

>>106807695 (OP)
almost every sain country has a paper copy lying somewhere.

>>106807695 (OP)
obvious sabotage
Probably needed to keep more cult info under wraps

>>106808438
Probably just a butthurt Russian

johnny somali did this

>>106807721
This, but because i don't backup my backup

>Oopsie, all of the financial information that could have unveiled decades of fraud and other sketchy monetary traffic burned down.
>We also lost all proof of any wrongdoings by the corporations against their workers
>It really is a pity we lost all of the data pertaining to an ongoing investigation about politicians and kids
>Paper copies? Don't you remember when we made those illegal in the name of the environment?

It'll be easier than ever to nuke data permanently.
Truly we're living in wonderful times.

>>106808588
this is outdated
their latest president tried to coup the country. and not ironically like Trump

>>106807756
This
It's a gigantic corporation wearing the skin of a country.

>>106809290
>It'll be easier than ever to nuke data permanently.
Or fake data.
>It says right here felon anon that you were convicted in 2023 of being the hacker known as 4chan and escaped a month ago. Back into prison you go!
>No, you don't have a right to a trial first. The database shows you already had a trial, were convicted, and sentenced to ten years.

>>106809391
>The combined sales of the four family-controlled groups, Samsung, SK, Hyundai Motor and LG, reached 980.5 trillion won ($729 billion) in 2023, accounting for 40.8 percent of the country's nominal GDP, Rep. Cha Gyu-geun of the minor Rebuilding Korea Party said, citing data from the Fair Trade Commission.
Pretty much.

>>106807695 (OP)
yep it's burn

>>106807731
>kolega
Slav?

>>106809368
>ironically
incompetently

>>106809581
it's over

thank god its the wrong korea

>>106809290
it's ok, in the future there will be some intergovernmental, transnational alphabet entity in charge of storing and securing all government data. you won't have to worry about crucial data being lost because it will all be safe in the hands of the data center equivalent of the world trade organization. you'd trust them, right?

>>106809746
south korea has more data on their citizens than north korea

>>106809290
paper copies is insane.

should have blue ray disk archives of important stuff, though.
youd be burning them shits 24/7 but at least you could store them in a vault

>>106807695 (OP)
No worries Israel still has a copy

THERE IT GOES, THE EPSTEIN LIST AND (((TAX EVASION)))!

>Final reports and official records submitted to the government are also stored in OnNara, so this is not a total loss,” said a director of public services at the Interior Ministry.
>
>The Interior Ministry explained that while most systems at the Daejeon data center are backed up daily to separate equipment within the same center and to a physically remote backup facility, the G-Drive’s structure did not allow for external backups. This vulnerability ultimately left it unprotected.

>>106807695 (OP)
The Ministry of Personnel Management, which had mandated that all documents be stored exclusively on G-Drive, was hit hardest.
Nothing personnel personnel.

>>106810145
and so does Samsung who likely is the actually relevant party in charge.

>>106807695 (OP)
>Xhe doesn't have offsite backups
I don't either and now I'm getting nervous.

>>106807695 (OP)
This article was originally written in Korean and translated by a bilingual reporter with the help of generative AI tools. It was then edited by a native English-speaking editor. All AI-assisted translations are reviewed and refined by our newsroom.

>>106807695 (OP)
The link doesn't really cover the scale of what may be permanently lost

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/858tb-of-government-data-may-be-lost-for-good-after-south-korea-data-center-fire

>G-Drive, which stands for Government Drive and is not a Google product, was used by government staff to keep documents and other files. Each worker was allocated 30GB of space.

kek Government Drive


>As of Saturday, only 115 of 647 affected networks had been restored, a recovery rate of 17.8 percent. A full recovery is expected to take a month.

>Four people have been arrested as police investigate whether professional negligence contributed to the fire.

>>106808575
>The stored data amounts to 858TB (terabytes), equivalent to 449.5 billion A4 sheets
yeah good luck with that

>>106811164
>858TB
>A hard drive
damn they sure are in the future

Just run recuva and it should be fine.

>>106807695 (OP)
>No back ups or copies
They should ask NSA, it probably does have backups of this.

>>106808438
Try to find mentions of Latvia ANYWHERE in actual physical documents (maps, mentions by travelers at the time who documented their shit etc) before communists created it.

>>106809581
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2025/10/02/FPWGFSXMLNCFPIEGWKZF3BOQ3M/
>The Ministry of Personnel Management, which uses the G-Drive extensively, is in a state of emergency.
>On the other hand, the Office for Government Policy Coordination, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, and others say that few public officials use the G-Drive.
>Although it has been six days since the fire, the recovery rate remains in the 10% range. The recovery speed is gradually decreasing.
>“After removing the dust, we will sequentially restart the burned computer rooms.”

it shouldn't be funny but the article's just hilarious

So, what are the most major consequences from this?

>>106811197
How many football fields is that?

>>106811164
>professional negligence
Where do I send my resume?

>>106811304
A lot.

>>106811260
Public humiliation of the failed state known as South Korea.

>>106810037
>blu-ray discs
nig that's baby shit, modern tape storage is fucking absurd. a single modern tape cartridge can hold 50TB of data.

>>106811440
You can stack paper

>>106811164
>>106811608
>858TB
that's less than 20 mag tapes, which is like $2-$3k. that's peanuts.

>>106811304
6,000,000

>>106807695 (OP)
they just need to ask china for a copy of the backup they made.

>>106811630
The system was probably designed incorrectly so creating a backup was impossible without taking it offline for a few days each time.
If so, then senior people definitely knew this and were given approval to continue without backups because a few days of downtime are "unacceptable" to ministers. Now they know that there are various degrees of unacceptability and that a few days of disruption is less bad than losing everything.

>>106807695 (OP)
How much will he charge them for his "backups"?

>>106811864
Oh that's good.

>>106807695 (OP)
They probably had all of their backups on site.

Yeah bros, I'm starting to think North Korea had a point.

>>106807695 (OP)
>National Information Resources Service
>no backup
Lmao come on now, might as well scream "we're destroying incriminating informations".

>>106811609
Ok. How high do you want to stack them?

>>106813045
One ream is 500 sheets and thats about 2 or 3 inches tall. So you could reasonably stack around them to around 8000-10000 sheets.
That reduces the amount of space needed down a few hundred football fields.
And we could stack the paper higher too, and get a bigger building. A football field isnt that big in comparison to a storage warehouse.

>>106807695 (OP)
Very convenient way to destroy evidence of corruption

>>106812119
>senior people definitely knew this and were given approval to continue without backups
correct. The reason is that evidence of government corruption and other crimes can be hidden as needed when the data is all in one place.
Read up on how Stasi were burning and shredding everything in their archive when East Germany fell. Would've been a lot harder to do if they had multiple copies of everything.

>>106807756
What's their alternative?
Korea has nothing to offer beside being corporate slaves

>>106811608
>magnetic tape: 30 yrs
>M-Disc blueray: 1000 yrs

>>106811239
Hmmm. I was trying to get to Norway through Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland on my motorbike this summer. Right on the polish lithuanian border it stared raining so hard I had to turn back after a few hours. The forecast was for a downpour for the next 8 or so days. I was shivering after 2 hours.
Was it them manipulating the weather to stop me from reaching the supposed latvia geographic location?

>>106811260
cult members completely absolved

>>106814464
So basically they are pointing at big numbers and saying it's a loss of [something], no one knows really what it even could amount to.

>>106814404
They were trying to buy some time to prop up the 2d house cutouts along the road so you'd think it's a real thing.

>>106811609
Why does the guy on the far right side of the image look uncannily like Thom Yorke? Haven't used fluoride in a while there's plenty of good dental products without it

>>106811239
im going to blow your mind here

every country didn't exist before someone created it

>>106815039
Yes but communist creations such as Latvia don't follow the rules of nature. It always feels off.

>>106814706
I fucking knew it!

>>106811164
>lost 858TB of information after a crucial hard drive was destroyed in a fire at a data center in Daejeon
Should've used Samsung.

>>106808438
The like deporting russians back to Russia, which is pure infiltered russophobia.

>>106815297
What are Russians doing there in the first place?
Colonizing as usual, I guess.

>>106808438
tldrh; russians and tankies dislike the baltics because they broke off from russia and became rich while russia remains poor.

>>106807695 (OP)
>>106807721
>South Korea's entire government
South Korea isn't a real country. Nothing of value was lost.

>>106807695 (OP)
still tony

>>106811239
wait until you hear about germany and italy and the ukraine

>>106807695 (OP)
Good. Burn all data centers to the ground. Total Cloudnigger death.

>>106810024
They barely have electricity in North Korean big cities, and I bet some of them still don't know it exists.

>>106812119
>old persons
>learn from mistakes
lel

>>106808438
he's a vatnik

>>106808588
If bugcels couldnt get even more repulsive im not reading any of this just going to assume they are even more disgusting henceforth.

>>106807695 (OP)
I'll never get why would anyone store their shit on "cloud" when you can just buy an external storage unit and/or build a home server instead. Unless your home'd get destroyed by a tornado in an hour or so

>>106811203
i bet its all nig deives in jbod raid 0

My clients are there and they just lost 300k worth of security equipment
they got to rebuy everything and I can't stop smiling

>>106817006
and more,
they've been 'building' an act/act backup datacenter for 18 years now, keeps changing plans.
The official in charge of DR for this incident jumped off a building.
Very Korean way of handling things

>>106807695 (OP)
backups are for pussies
congrats on them for proving they're not total fags

i DoN't NeEd BaCkUp, I hAvE rAiD

>>106809543
That's a very real threat. I'm surprised people trust technology at all.
Technology is meant to serve people
People are assholes
Technology is going to be used to enable said behavior

>>106816102
Lol?

The Baltic states was always the richest part of the USSR. It's where the Soviet Navy was stationed at. Soviets plundered resources from Iran and placed them in the Baltic states.

>>106815349
No, you retard.

>>106817197
>>106817108
>>106816122
>>106814302
go back, redditor

>>106817240
le heckin reddit spacing!!!
>none of thost posts even have it
kill yourself

>>106807695 (OP)
South Korea isn't a real country because it only exists because Europeans bombed Koreans and told the Koreans who survived to suck on European cock for the bombing to be paused..

>>106817250
go back instead of doubling down that you're mentally ill, redditor.

>>106807695 (OP)
Yet another Worst Korea L

>>106817232
>No, you retard.
Go on, surprise me. What sort of business did they have with that country, if not colonizing?

>>106811217
That would be hilarious

>>106807695 (OP)
imagine having financial debt in there
>suddenly, it's all gone oh no

>>106817438
Already explained in the post. Pay back the stolen resources. Then kill yourself to make a German smile.

>>106810188
>the G-Drive’s structure did not allow for external backups
Seems insane to choose such a method

>>106810188
So they still have backups in the remote facility right?

>>106817108
Sauce on the jump? That's morbidly funny

>>106819484
https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/society/society_general/1222145.html

And this is the president’s mourning:
https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/politics/politics_general/1222177.html

And the president and the first lady were filming a cooking show while the entire datacenter was burning down, even after hearing about the incident, he kept on making pizza, so the whole country is blaming him

I don’t care if he was jerking off or whatever — it’s still funny.
https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/politics/bluehouse/1222228.html

>>106807695 (OP)
good

>>106807695 (OP)
see this >>106816178 but unironically. e-bureaucracy is the true sign of a low-trust society incapable of managing its people with paper.

>>106820256
>>>And the president and the first lady were filming a cooking show while the entire datacenter was burning down, even after hearing about the incident, he kept on making pizza, so the whole country is blaming him

Where can I watch this show

>>106809543
>here's ai video proof of you committing these crimes

>>106807695 (OP)
>have no backups
>your best korea neighbor does backups for you
uhhhhh based?

>>106816122
>America is real
The United States of America isn’t real, you’re British pretending to be natives.

>>106822492
Both are true

How does this mr robot tier shit even happen

The Unification Church did this to save their leader

>>106810227
W. Korean HR roasties BTFO.

>>106807695 (OP)
> Introduces criminal penalties for financial market manipulation
> loses goverments data shortly afterwards

Who could have done this?

>>106807695 (OP)
Who remembers?

https://abc7chicago.com/post/bartlett-fire-today-access-il/11536086/

>>106807721
They have money. I don't.

>>106808588
>8 powerful Koerean billionaire women formed a secret society and ruled Korea from behind the veil
Are they hot?

>>106810024
>has
had

>>106807695 (OP)
just run sfc /scannow saar data will come back

>>106808588
>Their main goal is to turn men into women
Once again, women have no idea what they're asking for. If men looked and felt like women, then having sex with your bro wouldn't be gay anymore and women become nothing more than a wetware womb with a very limited shelf life.

>>106808588
>women in power
>women form a secret society
>women control the country
>SK is a dystopian hellhole, it's pretty veneer masking a rot running so deep the only cure is to purge it in fire
The irony is not lost on me.

>>106811164
>Meanwhile, a government worker overseeing efforts to restore the data center has died after jumping from a building.
Who of you here told him to kys?

>>106807756
>>106807695 (OP)
>>106808438
China and North Korea are less dystopian than South Korea and Japan.

HERE WE GOOOOOO

>>106811197
>858TB

From a data storage POV that's actually trivial these days. Samsung even makes a 61TB SSD, thats like 15 drives.

>>106807695 (OP)
I hope it was all their surveillance data.

>>106811197
You can buy 20tb hdds on amazon fot $350. You need 43 to backup 858tb so that's around 15k USD only.
You could even make it 100 drives times 5 for redundancy and it's only 175k.
I'm sure the poor South Korean economy cannot afford such a large sums of money so that's too bad.

>>106827183
>>106826941
>creating backups is just a matter of having the space for it
Retards: The Next /G/eneration

>>106827203
>The voices in my head told me this is what you believe even though you didn't say it, so you lose the argument

>>106822485
kek

>>106807695 (OP)
>all the data from spying on their citizens is gone
Based. Hope this happens in Jewmerica.

>>106820256
>so the whole country is blaming him
Lol. If he stopped making pizza, would the fire magically go out?

>>106807695 (OP)
all because of li ion batteries, right?

>>106827203
>off-site raid5
kys

>>106815024
It's probably random people faces, artist was looking for "stare" so he found some, pretty sure top left guy is also an actor

>>106827945
>raid
>backup
kek, I wish I could interview you for a job, it would be incredibly funny

>>106828273
idgi

>>106828479
redundant/duplicate storage is not technically a backup you got owned

>burned
Let me guess, the J did it?

>>106808588
my first thought when I saw the news

>>106826227
>Are they hot?
no they are bitter hags

What is going on in that country didn't their President try to overtake it a few months ago?

>>106828990
That doesn't really answer my question.

>>106808588
The sewol ferry incident was orchestrated by those hags

>>106816122
Unironically true.

>>106815110
>Comparing municipal limits with whole countries

>>106807885
maybe some doubts about those. i'm sure they have contracts and it's all insured

>>106815110
What a disgusting fake country

The strange thing about a data centre fire is that data centres have fire suppression systems

>>106826900
South Korea and Japan are still in the Stone Age.

>>106807695 (OP)
Sus

>>106815110
hell yeah

>>106807695 (OP)
So why's K-pop still on?

>the cultist female president
>The supposed patriarch president who submitted to a male Shamanic guru like a bitch and tried to coup his own country for his wife spending habit
I'm surprised the country is still standing

Samsung hard drives failing, again.

Thank you Worst Korea.

>>106828556
how is an exact copy of the data not a backup?

>>106809120
reddit moment

>>106835971
Because a backup is supposed to be an offsite copy of your data, something stored separately from your main system.

RAID is used for redundancy in case one of your drives fails, but it all belongs to the same system and could potentially be corrupted by the same malware, for example. It could also all fail at the same time because of a voltage drop or power surge, and file corruption or accidentally deleting/overwriting files will affect the entire array too.

Basically, RAID is used mainly for uptime, when you cannot afford to have a critical system go down because of hardware failure, but it is not a backup.

>>106837141
hmm... restoring a critical system... with what?

>>106837820
With the power of friendship

>>106808588
this

>>106827358
what if he used the datacenter fire to make the pizza?

>>106837141
>a backup is supposed to be an offsite copy of your data
Says who?

>>106839917
Says my baseball bat after I take it to both copies of your data sitting conveniently in the same location.

>>106840227
Congrats, you destroyed my backup. Thanks for proving my point.

>>106839917
>>106840356
Learn to use google, dipshit.

>>106841812
Backup is a backup, doesn't matter where it is.

>>106842249
What this guy said >>106828273

You're so busy arguing about the semantics that you don't understand why nobody thinks such a thing is an acceptable form of backup. Like imagine you got called into school because your child tried to stab another child with a knife but you found out it was with a butterknife. Sure it's a knife by the strictest definition but the only jam it's going to get you out of is one in which you need to spread jam on toast.

>>106807695 (OP)
>"Cloud"
>It's one server
KEK

>>106807695 (OP)
>hehe the kimchi goyim won't suspect a thing

>>106807695 (OP)
They should have used AI.

>>106842486
>form of backup
So it's a backup
I accept your concession

>>106842721
No concession. Just laughs at your expense. 4chan threads are not a court of law. You win nothing.

>>106842731
You just said it's a backup, I accept your concession

>>106842758
I already said no concession. I know I know you're really desperate for any kind of win. But you won't find one here. But muh semantics I followed the strictest definition of the term everyone should be so impressed with me! Lmao nope. You're still getting laughed at.

>>106842779
Just because you say it's not a concession doesn't make it any less of a concession
Now stop yapping since you don't even know what we are arguing about

>>106842802
Shut up nerd

>>106842806
I accept your concession

>>106807695 (OP)
>Dozens of Petabytes
Last article I saw said it was 858TB total data. That would be less than on PB.

The first thing you learn when you come to 4chan is that this is not a space for serious technical debates. This is a space for debating the definitions of words and terms. These debates are won by following terminology to the letter the way a lawyer would. The closer your interpretation of a term is to the strictest most pure meaning of it the more correct you are when you speak on things related to it. The goal is not to have a serious discussion amongst people knowledgeable about a topic. It's to try to own the other guy in a debate about semantics then announce that you "accept his concession" as if he's never seen this maneuver before. Everyone is really impressed with anybody who does this on 4chan. It's the mark of a respected poster.

>>106842866
>so butthurt he didn't dare to reply to me
I accet your concession

Don't they have physical files? Doesn't a digital collection only exist for convenience?

>>106842909
I never concede to pedantic faggots but spam the meme 10 more times if it makes you feel like a winner.

>>106842920
Wouldn't do any good unless those were in a different location. Which is what we have been also saying about backups of the digital data throughout this thread but some retard wants to debate about what constitutes a backup.

>>106843090
>some retard wants to debate about what constitutes a backup.
Yeah, you
>>106842929
I accept your concession

>>106843561
I never concede to pedantic faggots but spam the meme as many times as you want if it makes you feel like a winner.

>>106809589
Monke

>>106809603
>At least half the "conspiratoors" were proven to be glowniggers

>>106810037
>>106811608
Either would burn as fast if not faster than that data center

>>106834909
The country will still be there as long as Samsung still exists. Even a megacorp still needs a host country.

>>106839917
kys

>koreajoongangdaily.com
>joongang
Goon? Goon.
Goon gang. Goon jang.
Yeah, I should probably goon.

>>106808721
Tack on another year in jail.

>>106843781
>>106844574
I acvept your concession

>>106845931
I never concede to pedantic faggots but spam the meme however many times as you want if it makes you feel like a winner.

>>106845934
I accept your concession

>>106845934
I never concede to pedantic faggots but spam the meme however many times as you like if it makes you feel like a winner.

>>106845957
I am not going to concede to a pedantic faggot but spam the meme however many times as you like if it makes you feel like a winner.

>>106845973
I accept your concession

>>106845991
I never concede to pedantic faggots but spam the meme however many times as you like if it makes you feel like you accomplished something.

The bloke that designed G drive was probably the same genius that put the earth wall in the runway over-run at Muan airport and killed a 737 full of people with 2 useless pilots who shut-down the good engine during an engine failure. Korea needs to lift its game - obviously bureaucrats are being put over things they know nothing about

>>106815086
find any historical references to Canada frmo before 1500 YOU CANT its not a real country.....................

>>106845995
I accept your concession

>>106846326
I accept your concession

>>106846476
I accept your concession

>>106817108
>The official in charge of DR for this incident jumped off a building.
>Very Korean way of handling things

kek why are they like this
how does anything ever get done when suicide is so common and clearly a preferred way out

25th of September 2025, The Government announces an on-site inspection for 20 hours and 30 minutes, scheduled to start on the 26th of September at 7:30pm and will last until the 27th of September at 4pm.

26th of September 2025, The government data centre suffers a catastrophic failure and burns (video). More than 96 servers are fully destroyed, including the Onnara and GPKI servers mentioned in the Phrack article (and with it, most of the evidence).

27th of September 2025, The fire is believed to have been caused while replacing Lithium-ion batteries. The batteries were manufactured by LG, the parent company of LG Uplus (the one that got hacked by the APT).

27th of September 2025 at 4pm: The “on-site” inspection......was no more.

2nd of October 2025, A new fire erupts at the Lotte IDC (which was also under investigation by the parliament).

>>106846918
I accept your concession

>>106847248
I accept your concession

>>106847343
I accept your concession

Get a room you spergs