Yandex confirmed that Ukrainian drone strikes on three of its Russian data centers in October caused permanent loss of 2.84% of customer data, since the affected systems lacked backup copies. Customers who had enabled Yandex Cloud's backup tools retained their data fully. In response, Yandex will make automatic backups the default setting for new virtual machines and is launching a new availability zone, ru-central1-f, at a separate location.
hardware.slashdot.org
· 2026-11-11
A Cloud Security Alliance survey conducted with Jazz found that 73% of organizations experienced at least one confirmed data loss incident in the past two years, and only 16% said their DLP tools blocked the most serious incident before data left the organization. The survey also found that while nearly half of security teams rank GenAI tools as their top exfiltration risk, fewer than a third can produce routine reports showing sensitive data sent to such tools, and only 22% strictly block GenAI-related data transfers.
darkreading.com
· 2026-10-21
Three copies, two kinds of media, one off-site. The rule is old because it keeps surviving the specific ways people actually lose files.
gokawiil.com
· 2026-10-19
A new guide highlights that many iPhone users skip regular backups, often because their data exceeds free iCloud storage limits or because they assume their data rarely changes. It argues that daily backups are important given how often phones are lost, stolen, or damaged, and outlines ways to do this without necessarily paying for more iCloud storage.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-17
An AI agent with access to the production server for the Swedish version of The Challenge deleted the fully edited season just weeks before its scheduled release. The production company's backup system failed, meaning the edit could not be restored, forcing editors to recut the entire season from surviving raw footage. Broadcaster TV4 later said an investigation attributed the incident to 'the human factor' rather than autonomous AI action.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-15
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust revealed that a technician's mistake on August 18 overwrote its maternity records database while attempting to copy a radiotherapy database for reporting purposes. The error used outdated instructions meant for another system, and a setting that should have been updated was missed, causing the maternity database covering September 2011 to November 2022 to be wiped instead. While clinical notes, test results and observations were largely recovered, the trust says it cannot restore full logs showing who accessed maternity records during that 11-year period.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-22
Amazon Web Services has confirmed that customer data hosted in its Bahrain and United Arab Emirates regions was permanently lost following Iranian drone strikes on data centers six months ago. AWS said one of three UAE availability zones and all three Bahrain zones suffered damage beyond what its backup systems could withstand, and it remains unable to restore access to some resources.
slashdot.org
· 2026-09-17
The author recounts a childhood incident in which a family photo archive stored solely on an external hard drive was wiped after the drive was reformatted for use with a set-top box. The photos were eventually recovered, but the episode became a lasting lesson about the fragility of single-copy data storage.
filipovski.net
· 2026-09-16
Microsoft ended free premium Office licenses for smaller nonprofits worldwide, and many organizations discovered their stored data—including Word, Excel, and OneDrive files—had been permanently deleted without adequate warning. Ronald Khosla, who runs the environmental venture fund Canopy, says he was told by Microsoft support that his data could be recovered, only to later learn it was gone for good.
slate.com
· 2026-08-23
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