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Report: Hackers Steal 10PB from China's Supercomputing Center

Experts say the leak appears genuine and could expose military and aerospace research, with full access offered for hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency.

  • On April 8, experts assessed that an account named FlamingChina allegedly breached the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, siphoning over 10 petabytes of sensitive research and classified defense documents.
  • Cybersecurity consultant Dakota Cary observed that attackers bypassed security with comparative ease, distributing data extraction across multiple servers to avoid alerts rather than utilizing sophisticated technical tools.
  • Samples of the stolen dataset appear genuine, containing documents marked "secret," and FlamingChina is offering access to the trove for cryptocurrency payments in preview and full-access tiers.
  • Serving more than 6,000 clients including advanced defense and aerospace organizations, the NSCC breach raises concerns that adversarial state intelligence services could obtain and weaponize sensitive research.
  • This incident exposes persistent vulnerabilities in China's digital infrastructure, despite the 2025 National Security White Paper prioritizing "robust security barriers for the network, data, and AI sectors.
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A hacker claims has gained access to the national Supercomputing Center system in Tianjin, one of the main high-performance computer infrastructures in the country. Hacker will have stolen 10 petabytes of information About...

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United24 broke the news in on Friday, March 20, 2026.
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