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10 petabytes of sensitive data stolen from China's National Supercomputing Center, hackers claim — daring heist would be largest ever China hack, covering 6,000 clients across science, defense, and be (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] gressen@lemmy.zip 24 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Where do you even store 10 PB of data?

[–] xSikes@feddit.online 20 points 2 months ago

On your fidget spinner usb drive from a trade show

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not to mention the logistics of transferring that much data alone. You need a high enough network speed to snag it all before being caught.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Social engineering and Sneakernet

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

Sneakernet? More like forktrucknet

[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

You could probably spread the exfil across a botnet of some kind, since I imagine the data will survive being chunked.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Minivan full of usb keys. Probably still the fastest data transfer method too.

[–] sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you were using 1tb micro SD cards you could fit them in a briefcase or two. It'd only cost $2 million at retail value of $200/card.

[–] AzuraTheSpellkissed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 months ago

$200/card? What are those, legitimate western numbers?/s You can find "2TB" SD cards on AliExpress/etc for $3. Increasing the capacity to 1PT shouldn't be much more than a minor change in the firmware.

[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a uhaul truck"

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That may be uncompressed (and text and similar data compress really well).

Otherwise my bigger question is how did they transfer 10PB with no one noticing

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

how did they transfer 10PB with no one noticing

Siphoning. Really slowly.

Tricked it out. Naw mean?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hackers must have insane S3 bills

[–] slowtrain33@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Just imagine the number of PUTs. I’ll bet it was mostly 100kb log files too. Them hackers gonna wish they never rsync’d that one. lmao

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I'm guessing that they wouldn't actually store that amount of data. Probably processing it on the fly and discarding a majority of it.

[–] 5PACEBAR@piefed.ca 3 points 2 months ago

They're selling those on AliExpress

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Maybe on one of those drives that fake their size and at some point begin overwriting previous data. Metadata still there, but content of earlier files completely corrupt. /s