Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Recovery

How I made $64k from deleted files – a bug bounty story (medium.com)
I built an automation that cloned and scanned tens of thousands of public GitHub repos for leaked secrets. For each repository I restored deleted files, found dangling blobs and unpacked .pack files to search in them for exposed API keys, tokens, and credentials. Ended up reporting a bunch of leaks and pulled in around $64k from bug bounties 🔥.

Bug Bounties, Security, GitHub, Automation, Data Recovery

35 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 1 comments

Apple's long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found (downtowndougbrown.com)
In my last post about hard drives that go bad over time, I hinted at having rescued a lost piece of obscure Apple software history from an old 160 MB Conner hard drive that had its head stuck in the parked position. This post is going to be all about it. It’s the tale of a tad bit of an obsession, what felt like a hopeless search, and how persistence eventually paid off.

Apple, Technology History, Data Recovery, Hard Drives

315 points by chmaynard 41 days ago | 99 comments

Decrypting encrypted files from Akira ransomware using a bunch of GPUs (tinyhack.com)
I recently helped a company recover their data from the Akira ransomware without paying the ransom. I’m sharing how I did it, along with the full source code.

Cybersecurity, Ransomware, Data Recovery, GPU Computing

257 points by costco 42 days ago | 58 comments

Decrypting Encrypted files from Akira Ransomware using a bunch of GPUs (tinyhack.com)
I recently helped a company recover their data from the Akira ransomware without paying the ransom. I’m sharing how I did it, along with the full source code.

Cybersecurity, Ransomware, GPUs, Data Recovery

6 points by notmine1337 43 days ago | 1 comments

Hard Drive Graveyard (benjdd.com)
Hard drive graveyard

Hardware, Technology, Data Storage, Data Recovery

7 points by bddicken 59 days ago | 0 comments

Saving My Table Tennis League's Hard Drive–and Finding Lost BTC (sampatt.com)

Data Recovery, Cryptocurrency, Table Tennis

3 points by SamPatt 66 days ago | 0 comments

Seagate: 'new' hard drives used for tens of thousands of hours (tomshardware.com)

Hardware, Storage, Data Recovery

383 points by 6581 87 days ago | 218 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 92 days ago | 1 comments

Imaging mounted disk volumes under duress (2021) (benjojo.co.uk)
Backups are critical. If you are lucky and organised you have a set of useful backup primitives, such as Point in Time snapshots on your Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS), your disk array controller, or volume manager. However there always seems to be some critical machine in my life that does not fall into these buckets.

Data Recovery, Backup, Storage

77 points by yamrzou 104 days ago | 14 comments

Crashing rockets and recovering data from damaged flash chips (dontvacuum.me)
In Spring 2020, during IAP, the MIT Rocket team launched multiple rockets at the FAR site in the Mojave desert in California.

Space Exploration, Engineering, Data Recovery

70 points by xyx0826 130 days ago | 13 comments

Tell HN: Need help, locked out of Google account with 10 years of personal data (ycombinator.com)
I've been locked out of my Google account which contains over a decade of my digital life, and I'm at my wit's end trying to recover it.

Data Recovery, Personal Data, Online Security

242 points by taosx 140 days ago | 119 comments

What's New in SpinRite 6.1? (grc.com)
NOW SpinRite 6.1 – Fast and useful for spinning and solid state mass storage! Since 1988.It Works.

Software, Data Recovery, New Releases

4 points by Auguste 222 days ago | 0 comments

A Starter's guide on recovering damaged and rotten CDs (wordpress.com)

Data Recovery, Technology, DIY, CDs

93 points by nixass 251 days ago | 24 comments

Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a serial cable (chzsoft.de)

Hardware, Retrocomputing, Technology, Data Recovery

107 points by jnord 294 days ago | 30 comments

Agilent 2000a / 3000a Oscilloscope NAND Recovery (salvagedcircuitry.com)