Hacking Group Exposes Pentagon IT Provider’s Documents

A person familiar with the matter informed us that hackers stole internal documents from Leidos Holdings Inc., one of the largest IT service providers in the US government, in an attempted breach of security.

There has been a recent discovery at Leidos and they believe they were the victim of a previously disclosed breach of a Diligent Corp. system they used, which was in use at the time, said the person who requested not to be named because it is an internal matter. According to the person who spoke with me, Leidos is currently investigating this issue. 

As one of the most highly regarded companies in the world, Leidos’ clients include the Defense Department, Homeland Security Department, and NASA, as well as other national and international government agencies. Based on a filing in Massachusetts dated June 2023, it was reported that Leidos used the Diligent system to store information that was gathered during internal investigations.

It has been reported that Leidos has refused to comment on the information that has been stolen. 

A request for comments was not immediately responded to by the Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security, and NASA. As Bloomberg News discovered, some files purportedly from Leidos had been posted on a cybercrime forum, but the details of those files had been redacted, so Bloomberg could not verify the authenticity of the files.

Even though Steele Compliance Solutions is owned by Steele, which acquired the company in 2021, a d

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