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A hacker has allegedly breached one of China’s supercomputers and is attempting to sell a trove of stolen data (edition.cnn.com)
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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.

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah, exfiltrating 10 petabytes without anyone noticing seems quite weird

[–] VoodooAardvark@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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…