China hacks military-grade encryption using quantum computer, poses threat to West

Chinese researchers reportedly hacked a military-grade encryption algorithm using a D-Wave quantum computer, marking the first successful quantum attack on widely used encryption. This breakthrough threatens military and financial sectors. The researchers employed two quantum annealing-based approaches: converting cryptographic attacks into optimization problems and fusing quantum annealing with classical attack methods. Quantum annealing uses quantum tunneling to find optimal solutions quickly, potentially enabling exponential acceleration over traditional computing.