Chinas National Supercomputing Center Hacked

[william]

While China was busy shipping missile chemicals to Iran and collecting yuan tolls at Hormuz, someone was inside its most sensitive supercomputer stealing everything.

CNN reports that a hacker group calling itself Flaming China breached the China National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin and exfiltrated up to 10 petabytes of classified defense data. The samples posted on dark web forums include bomb and missile designs, animated explosion simulations, structural integrity tests, renderings of the J-20 stealth fighter, sixth-generation aircraft concepts, nuclear submarine schematics, hypersonic weapons systems, and target analyses for American assets including HIMARS launchers and carrier strike groups.

It is being sold for cryptocurrency on Breach Forums. Cybersecurity experts who reviewed the previews told CNN the data appears genuine, matching known output patterns from the NSCC Tianjin facility, which serves over 6,000 clients including defense agencies and aviation firms across China. The timing is extraordinary. Trump posted a 50 percent tariff threat on any country supplying military weapons to Iran hours before CNN published this story.

The supercomputer that designed the weapons China is helping Iran reconstitute has been gutted by hackers selling its contents for the same cryptocurrency that Iran charges for strait passage. The irony is architectural. China built a parallel financial system using yuan and crypto to bypass the dollar at Hormuz. A hacker group is now using crypto to bypass Chinese state security and sell Beijing’s most classified military designs to anyone with a wallet address. The same technology that enables sanction evasion enables espionage monetization. The blockchain does not distinguish between a toll payment and a weapons leak. It processes both. For Xi, this is a catastrophe arriving at the worst possible moment.

If the data is genuine, every adversary and ally of China can now reverse-engineer the capabilities Beijing spent decades and hundreds of billions developing. China wanted to build a post-dollar world. A hacker group just demonstrated what that world looks like when the technology works in both directions.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2042048365983363367

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/08/china/china-supercomputer-hackers-hnk-intl

Hacker Breaches China Supercomputer

A hacker has reportedly infiltrated a state-run supercomputer in China, making off with approximately 10 petabytes of highly sensitive defense and scientific data.

www.cybermaterial.com

 

[william]

The data from the hack at the Chinese super computer center included missile schematics and fusion simulations.If, as claimed, the hacker had access to this information for months, it shows massive security issues. Along with the recent purges and weapons failures, this hack shows serious problems in China's military industrial complex.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2041961096148631715

 

[Gargolu]

sounds like a prime buy but who else would want to purchase critical info, ( scratch's chin ).

 

[Lostpuppy]

Open for Hacking

Outpaced by the US, China’s military places selective bets on artificial intelligence

That’s something that’s being demonstrated by the U.S. and Israel now in operational planning in the Iran war, where AI is playing a key role in identifying targets and planning mission packages,” the Canberra-based analyst said. “There’s no reason that the PLA won’t learn from that and utilize a similar capability.”
A testament to AI’s reach throughout the military, a March 26 PLA Daily report notes its use in battlefield perception, intelligent decision support and autonomous control systems.

Outpaced by the US, China’s military places selective bets on artificial intelligence

China may have surpassed the United States in AI for drone swarms, one Taiwan-based analyst said.

www.defensenews.com

 

[william]

CCP Imposes New Security Restrictions Across Government Agencies The heightened controls followed a CNN report on April 8 that China’s National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin (NSCC) had suffered a major cyber intrusion, with data leaks exceeding 10 petabytes.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2043772852999200934