Chinese could hack data for future quantum decryption, report warns | Hacking

WORLD By Leo Wilson On Nov 29, 2021 0 Share (adsbygoogle=window.adsbygoogle||[]).push({}) Chinese hackers could target heavily encrypted datasets such as weapon designs or details of undercover intelligence officers with a view to unlocking them at a later date when quantum computing makes decryption possible, a report warns.Analysts at Booz Allen Hamilton, a consulting firm, say Chinese hackers could also steal pharmaceutical, chemical and material science research that can be processed by quantum computers - machines capable of crunching through numbers at unprecedented speed.In a report titled "Chinese threats in the quantum era", the consultancy says encrypted data could be stolen…