A hacker has allegedly breached one of China’s supercomputers and is attempting to sell a trove of stolen data | CNN
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A hacker has allegedly stolen a massive trove of sensitive data – including highly classified defense documents and missile schematics – from a state-run Chinese supercomputer in what could potentially constitute the largest known heist of data from China.

The dataset, which allegedly contains more than 10 petabytes of sensitive information, is believed by experts to have been obtained from the National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) in Tianjin – a centralized hub that provides infrastructure services for more than 6,000 clients across China, including advanced science and defense agencies.

  • 404found@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    17 days ago

    What’s crazy is the hacker is trying to sell extremely classified Chinese defense information for only ‘hundreds of thousands of dollars in crypto’. You can get a preview for ‘thousands of dollars’.

    Is it worth placing a huge target on yourself for less than a million dollars? It’s unfortunate I will never read a follow-up on this story.

    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyzEnglish
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      17 days ago

      Is it worth placing a huge target on yourself for less than a million dollars?

      Depends on your citizenship and where you live. If the answer to both is “not China”, what would you have to be afraid of?

        • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyzEnglish
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          17 days ago

          I seriously doubt China assassinates foreigners on foreign soil. They’re not America or even the USSR.

          • 404found@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            17 days ago

            I think you’re being naive. Nobody can embarrass/piss off a world power then think their safe because they aren’t a citizen of that county.

            China recently passed an amendment to their Cybersecurity law giving them more power to go after international hackers like this.

            China could pay someone to track down the hacker and catch or kill them. I think they have a part of their government for that actually. Maybe they quietly put a bounty on their head. How is china going to prevent this person from continuing to hack them or teach others how to do it? This is a serious problem for whoever hacked them.

  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    That’s… that’s a lot of hard drives. Or a lot of rented server space.

    That’s many many weeks of downloading.

    • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      17 days ago

      The numbers don’t make sense here. The monthly cost to store that sort in data is way more than what they are asking for here. Even if they somehow extracted it to drives they own its over a million dollars just in drives.

  • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Cool, now other countries can steal China’s IP and thus the circle of knowledge continues on.