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.

  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Sounds really unrealistic. Thousands of dollars is really cheap when it comes to storing 10 pb of data, i mean fucking hell at that price point dude would profit way more by being a cloud storage provider.

    • girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      It said a preview was available for thousands of dollars but the full database is selling for hundreds of thousands. That seems more realistic for risk & storage/hosting costs.