The Lockbit 3.0 ransomware group claims to have breached the United States Federal Reserve, exfiltrating about 33 terabytes of potentially sensitive data.  The group claims that the stolen data includes “Americans’ banking secrets,” though they have not yet published any...

A ransomware attack targeting Synnovis, a U.K. healthcare partnership, has significantly disrupted medical procedures in several of London’s largest hospitals.  The incident has prevented hospitals from matching patients’ blood types at a normal frequency. Surgeries and other procedures that require...

Frequently, our clients will ask us about how the data recovery process works — and providing a quick answer can be difficult, because every case presents a different set of challenges.In some situations, we’re able to restore files by...

You’ve accidentally made changes to an Excel spreadsheet, and you want to roll them back. Good news: It’s not an especially difficult task.  Newer versions of Microsoft’s Excel software include a Version History feature, which you can use to restore...

Hard drive platter contamination occurs when foreign particles (or contaminants) reach the platters that store your data. The platters are thin metal or plastic discs covered with a thin magnetic material.  Under normal conditions, read/write heads float just above the...

Ascension, which operates 140 hospitals across the United States, has confirmed that an ongoing service outage was caused by a ransomware attack.  The organization says that they have implemented procedures to “ensure patient care delivery continues to be safe and...

You should never toss a hard drive into a dumpster — hard drives are recyclable, and given that we create more than 59 million tons of electronic waste every year, every bit of recycling counts (pardon the pun).  But while...

An analysis from Trendforce predicts that global prices for hard disk drives (HDD) will rise significantly in the near future, spurred in part by rising demand created by artificial intelligence (AI).  The analysis is fairly barebones; Trendforce quotes reports from...

If you need to recover data from a dashcam, you’ve probably got a very good reason (and we’re guessing that it involves an insurance claim).  The good news is that dash cams aren’t magic boxes; they’re standard digital devices. They...

If you’re wondering whether your hard drive can reliably store data, there’s a good chance that it cannot — any hard drive that shows any unusual physical symptoms has a higher-than-average probability of failure.In fact, even when a hard...