Lets hope the data was a setup. Fill the data with misinformation then allow them to access it. Then act like it’s a big deal.
Of course that would take intelligence agencies more concerned with protecting America, than subverting it.
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.
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