China hacked a Navy contractor stealing 614 GB of top secret submarine data - Sensationalist Headlines

China hacked a Navy contractor and secured a trove of highly sen.. We're talking top secret information on cryptological systems, information on our electronic signals database basically any remaining edge we had or were going to have within the next few decades over the PRC in the sub surface domain was practically given to the PLA almost on a silver platter.

It's cool, I'm sure the top cybersecurity advisor in the Government will coordinate with all affected agencies to get a working sitrep and get all this wrapped up before anything bad can happen. Oh wait.

Huh almost like corporations don't give as much of a shit about keeping shit secure as they do making money. Weird huh?

i can't wait for nothing to happen to the company a la equifax and the like even though both affected the countries security in a major way

The US government doesn't care much to keep their shit secure either, the Chinese walked off with millions of US service members and government employees personal details including social security numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach I was one of the folks who got wrapped into that https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/105/ff7997ec-ffcc-4c42-ba43-b15805aa72a2/thing.jpg Thankfully because it was a government fuck up I've got identity theft protection on the house for the next 15 years. Long story short, while I don't think the contractor had their security up to snuff I think even if they did the Chinese would have been poking at it anyway. I'm actually kind of surprised how much of this kind of thing has happened with little to no reprimand. I mean i know WHY there isn't any, but considering the gravity of these kinds of intrusions you'd think that A. The US government would have a higher standard and better eye over contractors and their security, and B. that some sort of retaliation whether it be diplomatic or otherwise would come into play.

Hey, I was fucked by the same breach. I got the same protection program too.

the DoD has a high standard of security and entire specifications on the handling of them. however with enough money on the table nothings really enforced and only scapegoats of the company who aren't really at fault get punished while the true problem causers get away scot-free (example: the equifax breach being because they didn't want to spend resources on maintaining their software. the vulnerable piece of software had been patched for like over a year to fix the issue they got attacked with)

Doesn't the DoD have a massive internal network spanning the country that is physically separate from the internet? Why would you even put such sensitive information on systems accessible from the internet? And reading the article it says that the contractor was storing this data on their "Unclassified" network, it really speaks of poor security culture and practices.

Humans are lazy

Oh something will definitely happen, they will get dragged into committee to get a browbeating and a slap on the wrist. Then they will be given a multi-billion dollar contract to research security methods.