This has often been brought up. Unclear yet if this is true.
Hackers' Delight: Does Quantum Computing Spell the End for Encryption? By Joe Dysart in the CACM
Security researchers warn that hackers are currently gobbling up encrypted data, and patiently waiting for the day when quantum computers will easily break their encryptions.
"Intelligence agencies are already recording massive amounts of encrypted data sent over the networks in the hope to successfully decrypt them with powerful quantum computers in a few years," says Tim Guneysu, chair for security engineering at Germany's Ruhr University Bochum.
Today's encryption methods used to send data securely over the Internet are expected to be no match for the power of tomorrow's quantum computers.
High on the radar of the data thieves: corporate trade secrets, health records, criminal records, and any other sensitive data that hackers believe they will be able to sell, trade, or leverage in the quantum era. .... "
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