Abstract We deal with the solution of a generic linear inverse problem in the Hilbert space setting. The exact right-hand side is unknown and only accessible through discretized measurements corrupted by white noise with unknown arbitrary distribution. The measuring process can be repeated, which allows to reduce and estimate the measurement error through averaging. We show convergence against the true solution of the infinite-dimensional problem for a priori and a posteriori regularization schemes as the number of measurements and the dimension of the discretization tend to infinity under natural and easily verifiable conditions for the discretization.