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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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[–] 404found@lemmy.zip 65 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

What's crazy is the hacker is trying to sell extremely classified Chinese defense information for only 'hundreds of thousands of dollars in crypto'. You can get a preview for 'thousands of dollars'.

Is it worth placing a huge target on yourself for less than a million dollars? It's unfortunate I will never read a follow-up on this story.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Is it worth placing a huge target on yourself for less than a million dollars?

Depends on your citizenship and where you live. If the answer to both is "not China", what would you have to be afraid of?

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 48 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

If you piss them off enough they can kill you even if you're in another country.

[–] Mister_Hangman@lemmy.world 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

For all the despicable shit china does in the world the should leak it all for us to #@&! With

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago

Why are you conflating the US with "Chyna"?

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 34 points 19 hours ago

Leak them on the War Thunder forums, maybe Chinese tanks will get buffed next patch.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 20 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

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

That’s many many weeks of downloading.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 19 hours ago (1 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.

[–] VoodooAardvark@lemmy.zip 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours 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…

[–] atropa@piefed.social -4 points 17 hours ago