Hackers Sell Classified Data of Missile Firm MBDA, NATO Launches Investigation

Hackers claim classified data on sale

A cybercrime gang is selling confidential data which was stolen from MBDA Missile Systems (A European Firm.) For the users’ information, MBDA is a European company that makes missiles and other weapons. 

It was established in 2001 from a merger of British, Italian, and French companies. MBDA is the world’s second largest missile maker, the first being Boeing. 

The company has three main product lines- air-to-surface missiles, air-to-air missiles, and surface-to-air missiles. The weapons are used by the militaries of more than 40 countries. 

About MBDA 

MBDA’s headquarters are in Paris, France. The company has manufacturing setups in Britain, Spain, France, and Italy. It has more than 13,000 employees. 

Unknown hackers claim that they have confidential military data accessed from MBDA after a successful data attack. 

As observed by HackRead.com, in the beginning, threat actors using Russian and English hacking platforms were selling around 80 GB of stolen data for 15 BTC (approx $294,000).

Company admits that data breach happened 

But, on August 29th, the gang lowered the price to 1BTC ($19,000) for data worth 70GB. On the other hand, BBC, MBDA, has admitted that par

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