Pentagon denies Datenleck.

Hackers should design plans from a stolen stealth jets have reported on Tuesday a U.S. newspaper. The denial of the Pentagon was not long in coming. The presentation was incorrect, but would you really do not comment.

 

The U.S. Department of Defense and the defense firms Lockheed Martin deny that they were massive data on the new U.S. F-35 fighter has been stolen. He had no specific knowledge about such a Datenleck known, said ministry spokesman Bryan Whitman on Tuesday. According to other reports about a successful cyber-attack were false.

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Multipurpose fighter aircraft F-35: Structural data of the stealth jets to be stolen by hackers have been

The reason for the excitement is an article by the Wall Street Journal was published on Tuesday. The paper had relied on the former and current government officials reported that large quantities of Hackers
Information about the fighter aircraft F-35 was off. Thus were several terabytes of documents, such as the advanced electronics of the airplane that had been stolen. In the development of multi-purpose fighter jets invest the eight participating countries, according to the Reuters news agency a total of 300 billion U.S. dollars.

During a Press Conference, said Lockheed Martin Chief Financial Officer Bruce Tanner: "We believe that the presentation of the Wall Street Journal, there has been successful cyber-attacks on the F-35-program, is not correct. As far as we know, secret data was never compromised. "

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Tanner noted, however, that the computer networks of Lockheed Martin, as well as the U.S. government, constantly attacked from the outside would. The company had but "stringent measures taken to detect such attacks and combat." The Pentagon, however, said that it would not comment on actual or alleged cyber-infiltration, potential impact on activities of the Ministry of Defense or the possible investigation "submit.

The Defense Science Board, an advisory board of the Pentagon, the Defense Ministry had recently pointed out that the U.S. military machine is still not sufficient for the defense against cyber attacks was armed. As a result, concluded the report, national security was clearly identified by cyber-attacks threatened.

The Wall Street Journal holds regardless of Pentagon denials, on his representation on the intrusion of hackers into government networks and the theft of sensitive design data, said company spokesman Robert Christie.