Hacker claims massive 10PB breach of China’s top supercomputing center

A hacker or group calling itself FlamingChina claims to have stolen over 10 petabytes of highly sensitive military and research data from China’s National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, potentially making it one of the largest breaches ever recorded. Samples shared online appear to include aerospace schematics, missile and bomb simulations, and data from major state-linked organizations such as AVIC, COMAC, and the National University of Defense Technology. Analysts told CNN that the leaked samples look consistent with what such a supercomputing center would store, though the breach remains unverified. The hacker claims the data was extracted over six months using a compromised VPN domain and a botnet designed to avoid detection.

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