Security News > 2022 > September > NATO investigates after criminals claim to be selling its stolen missile plans

NATO officials are investigating after criminals put up some data for sale on dark forums that they claim is "Classified" information stolen from European missile maker MBDA. MBDA has denied any sensitive material has been compromised and said it had refused to pay the gang a ransom, claiming the data for sale was obtained from an "External hard drive" rather than its systems.

According to the BBC, which saw samples of the files and has reportedly spoken to the miscreants, 80GB of data - which it was unable to verify - is being offered up for 15 Bitcoins, or approximately $297,000, and the extortionists claim to have made at least one sale.

A former NATO official said that, while NATO tends to overclassify documents, a secret-level classification isn't applied lightly.

Nelnet customers who had their data stolen have wasted no time in launching a class action lawsuit against the company, which was filed in a Nebraska District Court on Tuesday.

While no social security numbers were stolen, Samsung does admit that customer names, contact and demographic information, birth date and product registration information may have all been taken, with the specific stolen information varying between customers, Samsung said.

The data was stolen by online extortion gang Lapsus$, believed to be based in Brazil, who previously hacked and published files from Nvidia, game publishing company Ubisoft, and other high profile targets.

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