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    10 Petabyte (10.000 Terabyte) an Daten, die angeblich von einem chinesischen Supercomputer gestohlen wurden, darunter geheime Verteidigungsdokumente


    10 Petabyte (10.000 Terabyte) an Daten, die angeblich von einem chinesischen Supercomputer gestohlen wurden, darunter geheime Verteidigungsdokumente

    https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/08/china/china-supercomputer-hackers-hnk-intl

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    2. Chopper3 on

      They must have one hell of a fast data pipe out of there – even if you had 100Gbps external link, and could consistently capture that much data, it’d still take nearly 11 days to transfer, meanwhile the source data system would be working overtime just to keep up.

    5. HoightyToighty on

      Love to see it, and as China’s tech continues to improve, may its servers continue to attract this attention.

    7. 40to6inthe4th on

      Read. The. Fucking. Article.

      Almost every non-threaded comment in here is answered in the article. Yall are fucking exhausting

    9. static989 on

      So allegedly they used a compromised VPN domain to access the data, and then used a botnet to spread out where the data was going so it wouldn’t raise suspicion/trigger alerts

      Though I’m still curious how no one would notice a spike in the amount of sources transferring data, I wish there was more info on their methods but I can understand why there’s not lol.

      Also: „An account calling itself FlamingChina posted a sample of the alleged dataset on an anonymous Telegram channel on February 6, claiming it contained “research across various fields including aerospace engineering, military research, bioinformatics, fusion simulation and more.” 

      New WarThunder DLC is gonna be craaaaaaazy

    10. IntelArtiGen on

      It’s too much data for the majority of it to have any value I’d say.

    12. ryo4ever on

      I was going to say how long does it take to download 10 petabyte of data. Must be some fast torrenting…

    13. celibidaque on

      First, the KitKat heist. Now, this. We do live in interesting times indeed.

    16. ThunderYi on

      Heard about this “news” three weeks ago. Either it’s just a pile of completely useless, scraped junk data, or it’s a scam from start to finish. They release a so-called data catalog with pricing, hoping to trick some clueless government officials into paying. If they can’t provide any publicly verifiable samples, no government is going to fall for it. This kind of trick is old and overused. The fact that people here are still surprised is honestly pretty funny.

      Edit: Before downvoting me, think of this:

      >Full access priced at **hundreds of thousands of dollars**. Payment was requested in **cryptocurrency**.

    20. cinred on

      Jokes on US. 9 pegabytes is just our own data again. We should actually be grateful to China for backing up our most sensitive data free of charge!

    24. uberduck on

      Probably currently stored in S3 or some equivalent storage location, and I wouldn’t be surprised if this is state sponsored.

    25. TalonusDuprey on

      War thunder forums are going to be interesting over the course of the next few weeks.

    28. Inoffensive_Account on

      > The alleged sample data appeared to include documents marked “secret” in Chinese…

      That’ll keep the hackers out.

    29. getpoopedon on

      The article states it took 6 months for the hacker to extract the 10 PB of information using a botnet after gaining access. This person was dedicated.

    30. NotTheActualBob on

      I wonder if the Chinese didn’t let this happen, stuffing the data with plausible looking nonsense.

    33. Towram on

      Half of these is probably just someone who preferred not to augment data on-the-fly to save some training time of some model

    34. timfountain4444 on

      What a shame, the Chinese are getting a taste of their own herbal medicine. Anyway.

    35. DepopulationXplosion on

      How the hell does someone move PETABYTES of data without the network screeching to a halt?

    37. IAmFitzRoy on

      This is ridiculous journalism.

      10 petabyte can’t be just “stolen”

      This is like saying “Mount Fuji was stolen”.

    38. TypicalRecon on

      Been following this for a few weeks. Could be the biggest breach in military data in history. Some of it is HIMARS stuff and also renderings of where to hit US aircraft carriers to maximize damage. Wonder what else comes of it.

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