Hacker breaches Chinese supercomputer, tries to sell stolen intelligence

On 2026-04-08, a hacker group calling itself FlamingChina was reported to have breached the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin and stolen sensitive data, including defense documents and missile schematics. The group allegedly offered access to the dataset for hundreds of thousands of dollars and posted a sample on Telegram. The reported material included aerospace, military, bioinformatics, and fusion simulation research.