I wonder why the say "appears to have had," is that an assumption or was it stated somewhere? Without an offline backup, it would indeed be a very serious problem, more than it already is.

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n4r9 a day ago | parent | next [-]

My reading is: "The agency would surely be panicking more than this if they didn't have an offline backup".

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rob74 21 hours ago | parent [-]

"Offline backup", as in "thousands of shelves full of dusty binders spread across offices all over the country"?

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throw1234567891 21 hours ago | parent [-]

Yup. Everyone’s job safe for the next few years!

	▲	rob74 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"And to think that we just finished digitizing all those paper files five years ago! Oh well, back to square one..."

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embedding-shape a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think the "offline" part is what is that "appears" to be, clearly they have backups somewhere, but maybe the attacker just missed to wipe some other "online" location.

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sixothree 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I interpreted this as a vagueness related to the reporting accuracy, not the existence of a backup.