Posted on 07/24/2024 5:22:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
Hackers leaked stolen documents from a massive IT company that services the Pentagon.
According to Bloomberg News, the IT company, Leidos Holdings, recently learned about the breach and believe the documents were stolen from Diligent Corp.
“The Virginia-based company, which counts the U.S. Department of Defense as its primary customer, used the Diligent system to host information gathered in internal investigations, the report added, citing a filing from June 2023.” Reuters reported.
“A Diligent spokesperson told Bloomberg that the leak appeared to be from a 2022 hack affecting its subsidiary business Steele Compliance Solutions, which it acquired in 2021. Fewer than 15 customers, including Leidos, used the product at the time.” Reuters reported.
Bloomberg reported:
Hackers have leaked internal documents stolen from Leidos Holdings Inc., one of the largest IT services providers to the US government, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Leidos recently learned of the issue and believes the documents were stolen in a previously disclosed breach of a Diligent Corp. system it used, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public. Leidos is investigating the issue, the person added.
Hackers and cyberattacks are becoming very common on Joe Biden’s watch.
Earlier this month one of the largest healthcare systems in America canceled all non-urgent visits, procedures, and surgeries due to a computer outage linked to cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike.
The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that major “IT outages” are being reported across the world, affecting banking systems, health care systems, emergency services, and airlines’ communications.
Mass General Brigham, which serves 2.5 million patients annually across its 15 hospitals and clinics, has suspended all non-urgent visits, procedures, and surgeries.
Our elections aren’t even secured.
Hackers and cyberattacks are becoming very common on Joe Biden’s watch.
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Negligence!
...or is it?
The hack was in 2022 and they just now find it?...............
The Pentagon.
Home to so many contractors, and subsidiaries.
That’s possibly the scariest part.
It’s also possible they knew about it but like so many other government AND private entities, they conceal the black eye.
But if they didn’t know about it, that means not only was there a breach, but it took until discovery of the hacked material to do an investigation or forensics on how it was hacked, which means they are way behind on the proactive/reactive curve and who knows what else we don’t know about.
Yes, and the hackers are still out there hacking.......................
A smart enemy doesn’t work hard, but is patient and softens and enemy’s defenses smartly and from inside said defenses (e.g., a shoe in the works).
Think hard about Awan Bros (e.g., the ‘enemy within’) and a so-called ‘it company’ with only 15 customers, this time including the Pentagon (the ‘enemy without’).
There’s no accountability in ‘the swamp’, DIE is accelerating our vulnerabilities, and a majority of government workers agree with the results...plus the government targets all democratically selected achievers whose stated aim is to ‘drain the swamp’.
...which leaves very, very, VERY few options.
Until Conservatives embrace the tactics of the left - ol maxine waters said it out loud - nothing is EVER going to change unless our geographical/ideological/racial enemies make the first move.
And, frankly, the latter is woefully pathetic for reasons which ought to be obvious.
They should have used DueDiligence instead.
They should have used The Cloud.............😏
Why would ANY private corporation be allowed access to sensitive military information?
Probably because a lawmaker or someone in the MIC was making money pushing contracts to friends.
CrowdStrike to the rescue!
Stolen from “Diligent Corp”
Ironic
They aren’t stolen.
A Corvette mechanic found them beside a car he was working on . . .
Leidos is a provider for Amazon Web Services. They are two peas in the same pod. Amazon is seller, Leidos is the customer, in turn services the actual customer being in this case DoD.
It is much worse than you imagine. Liedos is involved in everything that Microsoft is not.
A hack like this doesn’t just affect DoD, and it involved the intelligence agencies, other departments of the USG. Amazon Web Services is THE Major Cloud provider with MS and others fighting over scraps.
Did I miss where they described the CONTENT of any of the documents that were stolen?
It appeared to be the same 2 sentences of content repeated over and over.
The government has gotten so gigantic and sprawling that it would be impossible to hire enough skilled government or military employees to do all classified work.
The systemic solution is to massively shrink all of the functions of government.
That would mean that politicians would have to get used to being pigs instead of being hogs.
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