Posted on 06/08/2018 8:19:48 PM PDT by bitt
Chinese government hackers have stolen a massive trove of sensitive information from a US Navy contractor, including secret plans to develop a new type of submarine-launched anti-ship missile, the Washington Post reported Friday.
Investigators told the newspaper that breaches were executed in January and February by a division of the Chinese Ministry of State Security, operating out of the Chinese province of Guangdong.
The contractor, which was not named in the report, works for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, based in Newport, Rhode Island. It conducts research and development for submarines and underwater weapons systems.
According to the Post, hackers swiped 614 gigabytes of data that included information relating to sensors, submarine cryptographic systems and a little-known project called Sea Dragon.
The Pentagon has not said much about Sea Dragon, launched in 2012, except that it is aimed at adapting existing military technologies to new uses.
At the Navy's request, the Post withheld information about the compromised new missile system, but said it was for a supersonic anti-ship missile that could be launched from submarines.
(Excerpt) Read more at securityweek.com ...
Yes we do and we need to cleanse the defense industry of all things of Obama.
Good chance you’re right. There’s little advantage to publicizing a major breach otherwise.
In any case this sounds like stuff we called “competition-sensitive” and kept on the unclassified intranet. That would include ITAR as well.
It’s safe assume everything on unclassified defense contractor intranets in general, has been merchandised. This being true of the larger contractors for sure. The nature of the beast is that there’s one intranet for even a large corporation with multiple divisions, meaning any employee with an account has access to most anything if they know where to find it. (The classified networks are by necessity isolated from everything else)
This breach could be getting publicity to “sell” certain info planted within, or the DOD could be purposely building a case to take some action against the company involved.
If substantiated it is time to cut all contracts and subcontracts of all US government suppliers (existing and future including US infrastructure) and put bans on all tech trading with this enemy country, and eliminate all chinese investments in the US as a security risk.
Why such sensitive information was not secured?
Wasn’t it the clintons that NERFED a great deal of the strict security measures for such information years ago ?
What Secretive Anti-Ship Missile Did China Hack From The U.S. Navy?
Details surrounding the Navy's Sea Dragon program remain scarce, but there are some distinct possibilities.
Hell!!!! The navy and their contractors need more than a few heads rolling on the floor…LITERALLY!!
Agreed. The government doesn’t mandate disclosure of cybersecurity incidents in contract bidding. If a company has weak security and has data regularly stolen, they can bid on new contracts and obtain them without having to disclose their various incidents. Not good.
It will all be completely secure in the Amazon cloud. This will never happen again. /s
How many of these hackers were Chinese H1B employees of the Defense Contractor?
Sadly we keep on importing their substandard junk regardless of what to do to us
“...the Washington Post reported WITH GLEE, Friday.”
Fixed! WHY are these security breaches reported? It only hobbles us more! Effin’ Commies...at home and abroad! Grrr!
The unnamed defense contractor showed a serious lack of common sense by allowing such sensitive information to be on the Internet - really an act of stupidity and our defense department did similar by allowing top secret ssbi information on US citizens to be hacked again on the Internet during obama admin. And Hillary Clinton did the same thing with top secret sci information - there really needs to be a reckoning for all this.
We are our own worst enemies. We have elected presidents (Klinton) who gives our stuff to the Red Chinese; and they cut deals with the Soviets. Now contractors cannot protect the information. Try disconnecting the danged computer from the stinking Internet!!! If it is not connected, they cannot steal the stuff.
There was a article recently, out of Columbus I think, about the state trying to find personal to fill a particular job classification. They found the task to be nearly impossible. One of the job requirements was a drug test.. According to the article nearly 100% of the applicants failed the test... Narcotics is killing us. America is in big trouble and it's all because of the liberals on the left...
That is fake news! Everyone knows China is our friend. /sarc
Tighten our labs? This was stolen from a contractor. Can’t believe it.
I guess is they have to abide by the so called’ orange book’ standards. Or has that gone the way of the dodo bird?
614G of data, over 2 mo (or less) of time.
That’s not a contractor, that’s a laundering system.
Punish the contractor(s) sternly.
Inside job to give hackers access...
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