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> The dataset, which allegedly contains more than 10 petabytes of sensitive information

> Cyber security experts who have reviewed the data say the group is offering a limited preview of the alleged dataset, for thousands of dollars, with full access priced at hundreds of thousands of dollars

at $10 per TB that would be $100k for storage

> An account calling itself FlamingChina posted a sample of the alleged dataset on an anonymous Telegram channel

Thinking you're anon on Telegram in the big 2026? There are real places to hawk this data. Sounds like BS
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/08/china/china-supercomput...
10$/TB on what planet?

I don't think even something like ipfs or whats that crypto that pays you for storage and bandwidth? storj? (if that even is still a thing?) has 10PB

You can get 5$/TB on shit like Wasabi but the data could only be pulled once or the bill would be in the hundreds of millions and they would absolutely notice 10PB of data on a single user account
Not any less than Toshiba, which is very quickly becoming a very enterprise-driven drive

I replaced My "I can stand to lose this" array with Seagate EXOS enterprise drives that were pulls from dells with <10 hours power on time for dirt fucking cheap. Somebody dumped hundreds of them on the market at the same time around ~180 USD each so I blew my load on them. Everything I care about is on an array of HGST helium drives. I've never lost one of those, lost tons of WD and only one seagate personally

edit: forgot the drive failure chart
Seagate and WD have swapped this position for as long as I've known either company. HGST is a WD product but -- and hear me out -- this is their only enterprise product worth putting any kind of trust in. their helium filled 0 friction drives absolutely mint, I've got first gen helium drives running still with perfect SMART.

I am not shilling HGST, but I will buy them where available. I am however shilling for helium-filled drives because zero friction is definitely an added bonus to longevity in 24/7 enterprise operations

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brother anything helps. 5, 10, 15$. I am not here trying to break the bank for anybody but I do regularly have to remind people that it isn't free to run because unfortunately we don't ever meet monthly amounts. our operating costs I tried to fairly divvy up in the monthly 3000$/mo goal but we do have biannual and triennial bills as well that are hard to factor into that due to taxes and stuff. you wanna send a dollar a year? go ahead, there's literally like 15 people doing that. we get 74 cents of it but it's 74 cents we wouldn't have otherwise