This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
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.
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?
If you piss them off enough they can kill you even if you're in another country.
Russia has no problem killing people in the UK.
DPRK has no problem killing people in Malaysia.
India has no problem killing people in Canada.
US has no problem killing people anywhere.
The layers of access they would need to root them out .... is not happening. He's quite safe.
You assume one buyer. Five buyers at 800K is better than 3 at 1MM.
Good point. I did assume it would only get sold once.
Leak them on the War Thunder forums, maybe Chinese tanks will get buffed next patch.
Read the article then read the top 2 comments and landed here. The thread is over everyone. Pack your hot takes and move along.
That’s… that’s a lot of hard drives. Or a lot of rented server space.
That’s many many weeks of downloading.
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.
Yeah, exfiltrating 10 petabytes without anyone noticing seems quite weird
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…
Sounds really unrealistic. Thousands of dollars is really cheap when it comes to storing 10 pb of data, i mean fucking hell at that price point dude would profit way more by being a cloud storage provider.
It said a preview was available for thousands of dollars but the full database is selling for hundreds of thousands. That seems more realistic for risk & storage/hosting costs.
Cool, now other countries can steal China's IP and thus the circle of knowledge continues on.
10 petabytes.. Siphoned over months without detection.
Doubt. A stack of hard drives in a backpack still has the highest bandwidth.
