Monday, January 19, 2015

50 terabytes! Snowden leak reveals massive size of F-35 blueprints hack by China

The reported theft by Chinese hackers of blueprints for the US’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter amounted to 50 terabytes of classified information, documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden have revealed.

The hackers are believed by many US officials to be affiliated with the Chinese government. 

The humiliating 2007 incident saved China “25 years of research and development,” according to a US military official cited by The Washington Post in a 2013 article covering the breach .... http://rt.com