Skepticism Surrounds Alleged Data Breach of Chinese Supercomputer
Hackers claiming to have breached the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, China, are demanding cryptocurrency for the alleged data. The group, FlamingChina, claims to have stolen 10 petabytes of data related to advanced science and defense agencies. However, security researchers are skeptical about the legitimacy of the breach. The hacker group offered a sample of the data for $3,000 in cryptocurrency, with the full data set available to the highest bidder. Despite the claims, experts question the feasibility of extracting such a large amount of data unnoticed. CNN has reached out to Chinese authorities for comment, but no official response has been provided.