Joint Strike Fighter plans stolen in Australia cyber attack
A hacker stole non-classified information about Australia’s Joint Strike Fighter program and other military hardware last year after breaching the network of a defense contractor, the defense industry minister said on Thursday.
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A hacker stole non-classified information about
Australia’s Joint Strike Fighter program and other military hardware
last year after breaching the network of a defense contractor, the
defense industry minister said on Thursday.
About
30 gigabytes of data was stolen in the cyber attack, including details
of the Joint Strike Fighter warplane and P-8 Poseidon surveillance
plane, according to a presentation on the hack by a government official.
"Fortunately
the data that has been taken is commercial data, not military data ...
it’s not classified information,” Defence Industry Minister Christopher
Pyne told Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio.
"I don’t know who did it.”
In
a presentation to a conference in Sydney, an official from the
Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) intelligence agency said technical
information on smart bombs, the Joint Strike Fighter, the Poseidon
maritime patrol aircraft and several naval vessels was stolen.
"The
compromise was extensive and extreme,” said the official, Mitchell
Clarke, in an audio recording made by a ZDNet journalist and broadcast
by the ABC.
Clarke said the attacker accessed
the small contractor’s systems for five months in 2016, and the
"methodical, slow and deliberate,” choice of target suggested a
nation-state actor could be behind the raid.
Australia has agreed to buy 72 Lockheed Martin Corp Joint Strike Fighter planes.
A
spokesman for the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), a government
agency, said the government would not release further details about the
cyber attack.
The ACSC said in a report on
Monday that it responded to 734 cyber attacks on "systems of national
interest” for the year ended June 30, and the defense industry was a
major target.
The attack on the defense contractor was carried out by a "malicious cyber adversary”, it said.
In
2016 the agency said it responded to 1,095 cyber attacks over an
18-month period, including an intrusion from a foreign intelligence
service on the weather bureau.
