What's crazy is the hacker is trying to sell extremely classified Chinese defense information for only 'hundreds of thousands of dollars in crypto'. You can get a preview for 'thousands of dollars'.
Is it worth placing a huge target on yourself for less than a million dollars? It's unfortunate I will never read a follow-up on this story.
I think you're being naive. Nobody can embarrass/piss off a world power then think their safe because they aren't a citizen of that county.
China recently passed an amendment to their Cybersecurity law giving them more power to go after international hackers like this.
China could pay someone to track down the hacker and catch or kill them. I think they have a part of their government for that actually. Maybe they quietly put a bounty on their head. How is china going to prevent this person from continuing to hack them or teach others how to do it? This is a serious problem for whoever hacked them.