Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Loss

Windows 11 users losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption (neowin.net)
Microsoft now automatically enables BitLocker during onboarding when signing into a Microsoft Account.

Windows 11, Security, Microsoft, Data Loss, Encryption

24 points by josephcsible 7 days ago | 25 comments

The desperate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion (bbc.com)
Swathes of scientific data deletions are sweeping across US government websites – with decades of health, climate change and extreme weather research at risk. Now, scientists are racing to save their work before it's lost.

Science, Government, Data Loss, Climate Change

13 points by wood_spirit 16 days ago | 1 comments

Hostinger Account Suspension and Data Loss Cost Us $200k (ycombinator.com)
We want to warn everyone about our horrible experience with Hostinger, a so-called "managed hosting" service that completely failed to protect our server, falsely accused us of phishing, suspended our account without proof, and refused to provide any data backup, leading to a massive financial loss of over $200,000.

Web Hosting, Security, Data Loss, Business, Customer Service

12 points by bhushank04 41 days ago | 17 comments

Big LLMs weights are a piece of history (antirez.com)
By multiple accounts, the web is losing pieces: every year a fraction of old web pages disappear, lost forever.

Web Archives, Data Loss

301 points by freeatnet 54 days ago | 213 comments

AWS India allegedly lost all data for one of their client (deccanherald.com)

AWS, Data Loss, Cybersecurity, India

15 points by maxloh 81 days ago | 2 comments

NASA solar mission data recovering after server room flood fiasco (theregister.com)
They can put a man on the Moon - but back on Earth, a busted water pipe managed to knock out NASA's solar mission data for months.

Space Exploration, NASA, Data Loss, Accidents

8 points by LinuxBender 89 days ago | 0 comments

Oracle Cloud deleting active user accounts without possibility for data recovery (mastodon.de)

Cloud Computing, Oracle, Data Loss, Privacy

240 points by jeroenhd 96 days ago | 110 comments

What You Might Miss When Backing Up CDs (mistys-internet.website)
I’ve written a bit recently about CD-ROM preservation and some of the more niche, easily-missed parts of the format. I’ve covered the formats themselves, but I felt it might help to provide some concrete examples of the kind of data that can easily be missed and that might not get backed up.

Data Recovery, CD-ROM, Digital Preservation, Technology, Data Loss

9 points by LorenDB 105 days ago | 1 comments

Tell HN: Check your old YouTube videos (ycombinator.com)
If you're someone who has uploaded videos to youtube in the past, and don't want to lose them, give them a quick look now.

YouTube, Social Media, Content Management, Data Loss

11 points by phendrenad2 134 days ago | 3 comments

How Bad Is Link Rot? (brainbaking.com)
There’s no denying that online content disappears. Depending on the type and thoroughness of the study, reports claim that 38% to 66.5% of webpages that existed a decade ago are dead. Sometimes we’re treated with a 3xx redirect code but more often than not they’re simply gone forever if it wasn’t for the Internet Archive.

Internet Archive, Web Content, Data Loss, Online Content

17 points by ZacnyLos 138 days ago | 6 comments

Cloudflare Experiences Major Incident in November, Resulting in Log Loss (infoq.com)
Cloudflare has recently confirmed that on November 14th they experienced an incident affecting Cloudflare Logs with 55% of logs during a 3.5-hour period being lost.

Cloud Computing, Security, Data Loss, Internet Infrastructure

6 points by belter 150 days ago | 0 comments

Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing (nature.com)
Millions of research articles are absent from major digital archives.

Science, Research, Data Loss, Digital Archives

6 points by XzetaU8 159 days ago | 0 comments

OpenZFS Horror Stories – Klara Systems (klarasystems.com)
Join the Klara team, including co-founder Allan Jude and solutions engineer JT Pennington, as they share spine-chilling Halloween stories of near disasters with data loss. Discover what to avoid and learn why having well-tested backups is absolutely essential.

OpenZFS, Data Loss, Backups, Storage, Software

51 points by rodrigo975 169 days ago | 0 comments

Data Lifeboat (flickr.org)
What should we do when a digital service sinks?

Data Loss, Digital Preservation, Digital Services

63 points by duck 198 days ago | 7 comments

Man locked out of Google Drive and loses 9 year old photos after SIM Swap attack (bbc.co.uk)
A man says he has lost files, business records and all his online photos after "failings" by his mobile phone provider allowed fraudsters to take control of his phone.

Cybersecurity, Data Loss, Mobile Security, Google Drive

32 points by microsoftedging 199 days ago | 19 comments

Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers' cloud products (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft has notified customers that it’s missing more than two weeks of security logs for some of its cloud products, leaving network defenders without critical data for detecting possible intrusions.

Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, Microsoft, Data Loss

295 points by alephnerd 200 days ago | 158 comments

Twitter blog posts from 2019-2024 appear to be missing from Internet Archive (twitter.com)

Social Media, Data Loss, Internet Archive

34 points by ryzvonusef 201 days ago | 11 comments

We're losing our digital history. Can the Internet Archive save it? (bbc.com)
Research shows 25% of web pages posted between 2013 and 2023 have vanished. A few organisations are racing to save the echoes of the web, but new risks threaten their very existence.

Internet Archive, Digital Preservation, Web History, Data Loss

55 points by yamrzou 233 days ago | 8 comments

We're losing our digital history. Can the Internet Archive save it? (bbc.com)
Research shows 25% of web pages posted between 2013 and 2023 have vanished. A few organisations are racing to save the echoes of the web, but new risks threaten their very existence.

Internet Archive, Digital Preservation, Web History, Data Loss

6 points by redbell 234 days ago | 0 comments

20% of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed (tomshardware.com)

Storage, Hardware, Technology, Data Loss, 90s

7 points by rbanffy 238 days ago | 3 comments

PSA: Internet Archive "glitch" deletes years of user data and accounts (gingerbeardman.com)

Internet Archive, Data Loss, User Accounts, Online Services, Glitches

110 points by reaperducer 280 days ago | 32 comments

PSA: Internet Archive "glitch" deletes years of user data and accounts (gingerbeardman.com)

Data Loss, Internet Archive, User Accounts

18 points by msephton 281 days ago | 13 comments

Loss of nearly a full decade of information from early days of Chinese internet (chinamediaproject.org)