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As a data point, the Toronto Public Library decided to take the "restore from scratch" approach after being hit by ransomware, and it took four months before bo
by wlonkly 3y ago
As a data point, the Toronto Public Library decided to take the "restore from scratch" approach after being hit by ransomware, and it took four months before books could be borrowed again. Now, I'd expect a library would move slower than an IT-heavy company, but there are substantial costs either way and only one of them is probably covered by their cyber insurance.
- danlugo92 3y agoFour months wtf, they should have offsite backups maybe every 15 days at most, but I can understand how even that can be a headache to restore from...
- ornornor 3y agoSo that’s what happened. I was wondering why they were having so much trouble. Their wording was evasive and I thought I til now that it was Covid closures related somehow without really understanding how covid would have that impact.