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Chicago Tribune/Washington Post: China hacked a Navy contractor and secured a trove of highly sensitive data on submarine warfare
Chinese government hackers have compromised the computers of a Navy contractor, stealing massive amounts of highly sensitive data related to undersea warfare — including secret plans to develop a supersonic anti-ship missile for use on U.S. submarines by 2020, according to American officials.
The breaches occurred in January and February, the officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. The hackers targeted a contractor who works for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, a military organization headquartered in Newport, R.I., that conducts research and development for submarines and underwater weaponry.
The officials did not identify the contractor.
Taken were 614 gigabytes of material relating to a closely held project known as Sea Dragon, as well as signals and sensor data, submarine radio room information relating to cryptographic systems, and the Navy submarine development unit’s electronic warfare library.
The Washington Post agreed to withhold certain details about the compromised missile project at the request of the Navy, which argued that their release could harm national security.
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Update #1: Chinese government hackers stole sensitive U.S. Navy undersea warfare plans: WashPost (Reuters)
Update #2: Chinese hackers stole sensitive data from Navy contractor: report (Reuters)
WNU editor: This is as bad as it can get.
16 comments:
I'm trying to read this from the UK and the Chicago Tribune is one of many non-EU news outlets that are currently unavailable after the GDPR legislation from the EU.
Anyone else noticing this?? I'm guessing, WNU, you aren't having problems in Canada?
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"Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism."
"Hacked" not "Sold".. Got it.. I have a dumb question.. Why are these projects online?
Sounds like an inside job to be able to past the security.
Or, someone forgot to do their job.
On the plus side, looks like an entire security upgrade is on the cards.
There’s probably a contracted team in China working on it right now.
I just don't understand why this continues to happen year after year. I should think there are standards for contractors. If there are do they ever get scrutinized? Here appears to be a swamp for Trump to clean up.
Roger
Another great reason to cut China out of the Western trade block and pay less then 2% more for Taiwan, etc to produce the same stuff. The only reason China is even an issue and has ANY power is because we fund it almost entirely by trading with it. Soon it will be our prime adversary. Really stupid.
Alex,
I mentioned that this was going to happen two weeks ago .... New European Privacy Laws Will Mean That Many Readers In Europe Will Not Be Able To Read Articles That War News Updates Posts
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2018/05/new-european-privacy-laws-will-mean.html
This is why I am posting from numerous news links in the hope that at least will pass EU restrictions.
Isnt this some kind of an act of war???
@WNU thanks for the follow-up. Not sure how I missed that post but I guess I'm not surprised you saw it coming.
Industrial espionage has been going on forever, chalk this one up to u.s uncompetence
I mean connected to the outside world.. Not Pen and Paper.. You can absolutely set up servers to handle whatever task offline.
We're clearly at a cold war with China and also at a cultural,economic and political war. We should act and treat them accordingly. Enough of the pussyfooting and being nice. They laugh behind our backs and stolen trillions. We will ask for it back. If they don't pay we'll massively arm China, transform north Korea into a democracy, build artifical islands with listening posts of our own and completely encircle china and slap them with trade tariffs. They need us a lot more than we need them. We should do this right away
We need these black projects completely offline, if they need to communicate with another installation, then that info needs to be screened and brought in by hand. Its not Rocket Surgery. Thats why I know it was sold!
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