Their cloud storage is down, and ironically their ransomware protection service AirGap. https://datastorage-na.fujifilm.com/stop-ransomware/
Taking services/networks offline is common during incident response management so it might be indicative of them taking appropriate action rather than them being knocked off-line.
Let’s hope their service lives up to the marketing.
That's why I never trust "non-cloud" companies with cloud storage, because you never know if they suddenly don't want to do it anymore, or in this case get hacked because of incompetencies.
Seriously though, fujifilm is a conglomerate and known for their pivots. If they did not reinvent themselves, the would have been joining Kodak.
the only exception I can really think of is infrastructure that you need to recover from disasters, which isn't on Azure for obvious bootstrapping reasons.
Having 100k employees, most of whom have admin access to their own machines (cos developer) has got to make it almost impossible to stop it happening.
Doing a partial string match on a password would effectively require it in reversible form. Even if you hashed all the possible substrings of the password, it would be trivial to brute force given all the hashes of the same string with one extra character on the end...
But OP was mistaken - the tool Google uses only alerts if the entire password is typed. Meaning that OP's friend was careless with password hygiene. As is nearly every new Google employee.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/password-alert/noo...
And yes, it does store a hash of the password on the local machine, although I suspect it's only a 32 bit hash or something so you can't 'crack' it to recover the original password.
In any case it should only be one of the three copies of your data.
Anecdotally, photographers - especially professional ones , take backups quite seriously. I’ve often read good blogposts written by them on how to backup your images. And I believe the 3-2-1 rule originally came from a photographer Peter Krogh.