Hackers have stolen the data about superexpensive military project of the Pentagon
Posted: April 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Cybercrime, Hackers |Unknown malefactors managed to receive unauthorized access to the information on the most expensive military project of the Pentagon — a hardly noticeable fighter-bomber of fifth generation F-35 Lightning II.
F-35 Lightning II is being developed by companies Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems within the limits of program Joint Strike Fighter. Project cost is estimated in 300 billion dollars.
As network sources inform, malefactors managed to penetrate into a computer network of one of participants of the Joint Strike Fighter program and copied several terabytes of information about electronic components and the plane construction. Theoretically this data can simplify development of protection against American fighter of fifth generation.
Attack, presumably, has been carried out from territory of China. It is marked that cybercriminals did not manage to reach the most important information on a fighter as it is stored on computers which are not connected to the Internet. Nevertheless the damage put to program Joint Strike Fighter, can be calculated by millions dollars.
Let’s notice that computer networks of the governmental departments of the USA regularly are exposed to cyberattacks. Last year the president George Bush even has signed the decree which assumes the essential extension of powers of Agency of national safety of the USA for the purpose of preventing of hacker’s attacks.
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