Classified NATO Documents Stolen from Portugal, Now Sold on Darkweb

The Portuguese Armed Forces General Staff Agency (EMGFA) was reportedly the victim of a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of classified NATO documents, which are now being sold on the dark web.

EMGFA is the government agency in charge of controlling, planning, and operating Portugal’s armed forces. The agency only discovered it had been hacked after hackers posted samples of the stolen material on the dark web, offering to sell the files to interested parties.

American cyber-intelligence agents discovered the sale of stolen documents and notified the US embassy in Lisbon, which alerted the Portuguese government of the data breach. A team of experts from the National Security Office (GNS) and Portugal’s national cybersecurity centre was immediately dispatched to EMGFA to carry out the a complete screening of the body’s entire network.

The story was first reported by the local news outlet Diario de Noticias, which claims to have confirmed the accuracy of the information through anonymous sources close to the ongoing investigations. According to these sources, the leaked documents are of “extreme gravity,” and their dissemination could jeopardise the country’s credibility in the military alliance.

“It was a cyberattack prolonged in time and undetectable, through bots programmed to detect this type of documents, which were later rem

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