GE hacking claim raises suspicions of DARPA-related military data theft
SpilloverSpillover from the General Electric incident · View original incident →In November 2023, hacker IntelBroker claimed to have breached General Electric’s (GE) development environment and stolen DARPA-related military information, SQL files and documents, and said they were selling access and the data. GE said it was aware of the claims and was investigating. Whether a breach actually occurred and the extent of any exposure of DARPA-related materials remained unconfirmed.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- Original incident
- General Electric investigates claims of cyber-attack and data theft
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- 2023-11
- Scale of damage
- Theft of DARPA-related military information and files claimed; actual exposure and its extent unconfirmed
- Cause / method
- Hacking of General Electric servers
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- It became known that DARPA military information had been leaked through the hacking of General Electric servers.
Original incident
This is spillover from the General Electric incident.
General Electric investigates claims of cyber-attack and data theft
General Electric investigated claims of a cyber-attack targeting the company and of data theft. Whether a breach actually occurred, the scale of the damage and when it happened have not been confirmed.
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