NATO is investigating the sale of documents online that hackers advertise as secret military files.
The BBC is reporting that the crime ring is promoting what it claims are top secret files stolen from European weapons manufacturer MBDA Missile Systems.
Documents for sale include blueprints for weapons used by NATO allies in the war in Ukraine, files marked “NATO Confidential”, “NATO Only Available” and “Unclassified Controlled Information”, according to the BBC, which was given access to the sample. data.
This was announced by the official representative of NATO. Luck on Friday: “We are evaluating claims related to data allegedly stolen from MBDA.”
“We have no indication that any NATO network has been compromised,” they added. “NATO is taking all necessary measures to ensure the security of our networks.”
Missile systems manufacturer MBDA counts NATO as one of its customers. The company has operations in Europe and the USA.
The MDBA files being sold are reported to provide details of a “communication intelligence” operation carried out by the U.S. air regiment over the Baltic states in 2020, including the full name, phone number, and coordinates of the person who was said to be at the center of the mission.
The hackers also gave BBC reporters access to additional documents marked “NATO Secret”.
NATO has four levels of security classification: NATO Restricted, NATO Confidential, NATO Secret, and Top Secret from Space.
Cosmic Top Secret is the highest level of clearance given to documents by a military alliance.
Data content dispute
MBDA does not dispute its target for hackers.
However, after the data leak a few weeks ago, the company insisted that the stolen information was “neither secret nor confidential”, refuting the hackers’ claims that they were selling.
“There have been no breaches of our secure networks,” a company spokesman said. Luck on Friday. “MBDA can confirm that MBDA security label data is not involved.”
According to the company, the data was stolen from an external hard drive rather than from its more sensitive information systems.
“Following the company’s refusal to give in to this blackmail threat and pay the ransom demand, the criminal group released the information online, making it available for payment,” MBDA said in a statement four weeks ago. “The company will take all possible legal action in the face of what constitutes a criminal act of blackmail.”
He stated that he complies with the requirements of the Italian authorities, who are investigating the data leak.
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