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.

  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    15 hours 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
      17·
      15 hours 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.

      • VoodooAardvark@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        14 hours ago

        Maybe they’re counting on multiple buyers?

        Edit: I guess more likely they’d just toss access to the buyer for the data, get paid, and bounce…