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DOS.Zone Asks Players to Recover Lost Games From Browser Caches

After a cyberattack on host Beget wiped its cloud storage, DOS.Zone lost about 800 of 2,600 games and asks users to send files saved in their browser caches.

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The retro-gaming portal DOS.Zone has asked its community for help restoring roughly a third of its game collection. Developer and emulation advocate Nikita Aksyonov, known as @Carter54, says some of the missing games may still sit in the browser caches of people who played them.

The project's cloud provider, Beget, was hit by a cyberattack on 2 November. According to the team, the incident caused large-scale data loss across servers and cloud storage, and even backups were destroyed. Beget has described the event as force majeure. In its own breakdown, the host said attackers gained access to the control layer of its architecture and ran wiping scripts. All data in its cloud infrastructure (VPS, S3 and Kubernetes) was lost, while VPS file backups survived. CDN and IP settings were lost.

What was lost and how to help

The DOS.Zone team says everything needed to rebuild the portal's infrastructure survived in local copies, and the site should be fully working by the end of next week. However, local copies of about 800 of the 2,600 games could not be found.

To help, users should open any DOS game on dos.zone, such as Alley Cat, in the same browser and on the same device they used before. Then they should follow these steps: open the disk manager icon at the bottom left, above the gear icon; go to the caches folder, then bundles; select all files and download them using the icon at the top left; save them in a separate folder; zip it; and send the archive to the project's email or its Telegram chat. The process should be done once per browser. The current game always lands in bundles, so if only one bundle appears, it does not need to be sent.

Further losses

Aksyonov also said that the RGC.zone storage was completely destroyed, including nearly all games and magazines of the Retropages library, about 500 GB of data. He launched Retropages in August 2026 as an updating online library of video game literature, including magazines, books and comics. He added that his accounts were temporarily blocked after a suspicious donation, and that he has filed documents with the Central Bank, with a decision expected within 15 days.

He says he will restore everything and expects DOS.Zone to be fully available within about five days, with RGC.zone to follow as quickly as possible.

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