Pulse of Truth

1850 readers

60 users here now

Cyber Security news and links to cyber security stories that could make you go hmmm. The content is exactly as it is consumed through RSS feeds and wont be edited (except for the occasional encoding errors).

This community is automagically fed by an instance of Dittybopper.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

krogoth@infosec.pub

Accused data thief threw MacBook into a river to destroy evidence (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 day ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

5 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Former staffer of Korean e-tailer Coupang accessed 33 million records but may have done less damage than feared Korean e-tailer Coupang claims a former employee has admitted to improperly accessing data describing 33 million of its customers, but says the accused deleted the stolen data.…

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 1 points 17 hours ago

So that does assume (and tbc, I think it's a fair assumption) that impact with water and such doesn't damage seals and that the laptop was shallow enough that pressure didn't over come seals.

For the sake of hypotheticals, let's assume water "did intrude" on the drives.

On NVMEs, I think you've got the right of it. There's really no where for water to intrude upon (at least that's my understanding of their construction). I suppose I could see some damage if the connectors were soaked while power was connected, but that seems like a real stretch of the imagination.

For SSDs and HDDs though, if they're cases got (muddy river) water in them, seems like they'd be fucked. Maybe an SSD would be fine with no power, but the HDD would need all its disks cleaned before being spun up again (an unrealistic proposition, though not impossible - seems like forensics would more likely scrap the disks once disassembled).

Mostly looking to test my own knowledge on modern drive construction, so I'd love your feedback on how right/wrong I am there.