While China was busy shipping missile chemicals to Iran and collecting yuan tolls at Hormuz, someone was inside its most sensitive supercomputer stealing everything.
CNN reports that a hacker group calling itself FlamingChina breached the China National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin and exfiltrated up to 10 petabytes of classified defence data. The samples posted on dark web forums include bomb and missile designs, animated explosion simulations, structural integrity tests, renderings of the J-20 stealth fighter, sixth-generation aircraft concepts, nuclear submarine schematics, hypersonic weapons systems, and target analyses for American assets including HIMARS launchers and carrier strike groups.
Ten petabytes. For context, the entire printed collection of the US Library of Congress is approximately 10 terabytes. This breach is one thousand times that volume. It is being sold for cryptocurrency on Breach Forums. Cybersecurity experts who reviewed the previews told CNN the data appears genuine, matching known output patterns from the NSCC Tianjin facility, which serves over 6,000 clients including defence agencies and aviation firms across China.
And they found out most of their hardware were stolen copies of U.S. tech?
“And they found out most of their hardware were stolen copies of U.S. tech?”
And most of it about five years out of date. Best technology they can buy or steal, as usual.
The Chinese don’t innovate, they copy.
Oh, but they copy in the most innovative ways!
Perhaps the FlamingChina group will out the spies employed by China and currently working as MP’s in Ottawa, and every university in North America…
OOOOPS!
So … THIS … is what’s called “asymmetrical war”? Brutal.
In mandarin:
“>Warning, Admin.. Your password: ‘xXD33zNutzXx’ is not secure, and may have been compromised.. would you like to change your password now?”
Iiiiiits fiiiiine.. Take me to the loli-pr0n..
This is very sweet!
You would think, given the hacking China does to everybody else, that they would know to lock down their sh1t. But no, apparently not.
Communism can be a pretty wonderful thing eh? No need for a quantum compute hack, just type in Chairman Mao’s birthday and you’re in. ~:D
got some tofu at the hospitality centre today.
induced me to tell a server about tofu construction in Chirer. told her the corruption is so deep,
absence of rule of law, patent enforcement, building codes and rigorous inspections,
brand new buildings keeling over, brand new infrastructure collapsing,
we actually needn’t worry about them ‘taking over’ much of anything.
looks like the pattern extends to the digital world. they wont get over this for years.
also lOOks good on them aka ‘tit-for-tat. how do you say that in Chirese? 以牙还牙 LOL
ohhh. ooooohhhhhhhhhh. oooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
this is unimaginable exquisite. the regime that executes yughar minorities to feed the organ donor black market, that strongarms and blackmails and stalks expatriates, that corrupts everything they touch,
that cares not a hoot about the wellbeing of their OWN citizens, brand new buildings made out of sawdust and newspapers, bridges and dams collapsing for lack of proper inspections during construction . . . . . . . .
the biggest hack in all history.
during POTUS Trump’s 2nd and historic term. beautiful. wonderous. exceedingly humorous.
If we steal back what was stolen from us is it still theft?
Anyone want to start a Give Send Go?
FlamingChina? Someone’s watched “Tropic Thunder” one too many times (NSFW):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKxYuMIW-_8
Color me skeptical… if one were to pay the fee to download the data, it would take literally years to complete the file transfer, and that’s if you had a gigabit internet connection. If you had a really good UDP connection, you might be able to do that in just a matter of… weeks.
It’s a scam! (Or perhaps a trap?)
I think you’re absolutely right. No way to move 10 petabytes of data without noticing. Like moving a semi truck through your living room.