Now a days heat is up for Chinese Hackers because this month 3 Major Activities by Chinese Hackers related to (Google and U.S govt. Websites) on the top and now according to the ABC News SECRET and highly sensitive blueprints outlining the layout of Australia’s top spy agency’s new headquarters have been stolen by Chinese hackers.
It is unclear precisely when the alleged theft took place, or if there have been diplomatic ramifications from the embarrassing breach.
Documents have been stolen contain:
- ASIO building’s floor plans
- Communication cabling layouts
- Server locations
- Security systems
*It potentially putting the entire organisation at risk, Monday night’s Four Corners program alleges.
The ABC did not cite the source of its claims, but said the blueprints had been taken from a contractor involved with the project.
“It reeked of an espionage operation. Someone had mounted a cyber hit on a contractor involved in the site,” Four Corners reported.
“The plans were traced to a server in China.”
Professor Des Ball, from the Australian National University’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, suggested the theft meant China could bug the building.
“At this stage with construction nearly completed you have two options,” he told the ABC.
“One is to accept it and practice utmost sensitivity even within your own headquarters.
“The other, which the Americans had to do with their new embassy in Washington … was to rip the whole insides out and to start again.”
Federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus refused to confirm the theft.
Whistleblowers interviewed by Four Corners also allege the Australian defence department’s classified email and restricted networks have been hacked.
“A factor of of ten times the entire database, or the entire amount of information stored within the Defence Restricted Network, has been leached out over a number of years,” one worker said.
Another whistleblower said a “highly sensitive document” belonging to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade had been stolen by China.
“It’s a project that would give an adversary a significant advantage when dealing with Australia,” the source told the ABC about the DFAT document.
VIA– CourierMail & ABC
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