Newsweek report about a breach alleging Chinese firm used Charles Leclerc and other athletes' brainwave data, with potential military links.

Scuderia Ferrari Formula One driver Charles Leclerc's name has appeared in a brainwave data breach following an investigation. It is alleged that China might have stolen brainwave data through a focus-training headband. The data could later be used for military supersoldier research, raising alarms about the safety of such devices.Journalist Pablo Torre reported a six-month investigation by Hunterbrook Media in partnership with PTFO, which explains how FocusCalm's parent company, BrainCo, was funded by businesses with links to the Chinese government for nearly ten years. The company then moved to China to allegedly train super-soldiers.A Chinese government employee reportedly extracted software data from the headbands that the athletes used, including Leclerc. Elaborating on his podcast, Pablo Torre Finds Out, Torre explained:"I want to establish that this headband that I was just wearing, called the FocusCalm, is not just like a random thing. It is actually incredibly popular in the world of sports because it enables athletes to track their brainwaves for performance reasons...."You can see when you're calm, when you're stressed, 'you can get in the zone' is what the whole advertising around this is."He added:"These aren't just like any athletes: we're talking about Italy's famously focused Jannik Sinner, who trains with the FocusCalm. We're talking about the former number one women's tennis player in the world, Iga Swiatek, who is using it every day. The number one alpine skier of all time, American gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin, who uses it as also a bunch of English Premier League soccer players do."Hunterbrook's Sam Koppelman explained how BrainCo moved to China and became one of the most important companies for the Chinese Communist Party. He said:"In recent years, BrainCo has largely shut down its US operation. Moved to China where it's now going public at that $1.3billion valuation, and it has quietly become one of the most important companies in the world