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> Lazar stored megabytes of victims’ stolen private documents and turned them over to media outlets.

Megabytes? As in just a couple of pictures? That can't be right.

Technically I could measure a couple of gigabytes of data in megabytes. I suppose if the media where after the biggest number (big numbers are more scary) they could use bits.

999 megs is a lot of text.

*1023

Actually 999 MB is correct. Mega is an SI prefix meaning 10^6.

What you described is a binary prefix mebi, which means 2^20.

The use of the term "megabyte" to refer to the other measure predates the coining of "mebibytes," which is used by rather few people. And as you can see on that page, at least one standards body still uses "megabytes" for the power-of-two units.

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