Hackers connected with Russia stole and published confidential data of the British government
Top-secret security information from UK defense and intelligence websites has been leaked online by Russian-linked hackers. The Mirror wrote. According to the media, data about British military facilities and high-security prisons was obtained after a hacking attack on the servers of the Zaun company and was found in the shadow part of the Internet. Zaun is a company that provides cyber security services, including for government agencies.
According to Zaun's official statement, the cyber attack against the company was carried out on August 5-6 by the LockBit group. “At the time of the attack, we believed our cyber security software was preventing any data transmission. However, we can now confirm that LockBit was able to download some data during the attack." "It is believed to be 10 gigabytes of data, which corresponds to 0.74% of all the data we store," the statement said.
The Mirror noted that "thousands of pages of data", including military and intelligence objects, were leaked into the network as a result of the cyber attack. In particular, hackers gained access to data on the purchase of equipment at Porton Down in England and the military scientific and technical laboratory at the Clyde naval base near Glasgow, where the entire nuclear potential of the United Kingdom is stored in four Vanguard-type submarines.
Procurement data from the UK's Government Communications Center unit for equipment at Bude in western England and Waddington Air Force Base in eastern England and Cawdor Air Force Base in south-west Wales were also leaked online. A spokesman for the kingdom's government told the newspaper that it "does not comment on security matters."
