NATO is “actively addressing” various IT security breaches after a hacktivist group claimed it accessed some of the military alliance’s websites once more, this time acquiring over 3,000 files and 9GB of data.
When questioned about the suspected intrusion, a NATO official declined to answer specific questions and stated that: “NATO is facing persistent cyber threats and takes cyber security seriously. NATO cyber experts are actively addressing incidents affecting some unclassified NATO websites. Additional cyber security measures have been put in place. There has been no impact on NATO missions, operations and military deployments.”
On Sunday, the SiegedSec team claimed to have broken into six NATO web portals: the alliance’s Joint Advanced Distributed Learning e-learning website; the NATO Lessons Learned Portal, from which the gang claimed to have stolen 331 documents; the Logistics Network Portal (588 documents and other files); the Communities of Interest Cooperation Portal (207 documents); and the NATO Standardisation Office (2,116 documents).
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