Hundreds of secret documents sent by NATO to Portugal found for sale on the internet
The General Staff of the Armed Forces was the target of an “unprecedented” cyberattack. Hundreds of secret and sent documents sent by NATO to Portugal found for sale on the Internet. The attack took place in August, and it is this Thursday made known by Diário de Noticias (DN), who says that Prime Minister António Costa only learned about the case because the US secret services were informed.
The alert came when intelligence agents detected American sales documents sent by NATO ‘darkweb’ to Portugal. The embassy in Lisbon communicated the situation directly to António Costa. Instead of the alliance, the documents deviate from your alliance form and the documents are deviated to the form of a long time and that have been changed to the form of an alliance.
Sources cited by DN speak of an attack of “extreme gravity” and “unprecedented” in the country.
The Alliance already demanded an explanation this week, the Portuguese Government and, next week, the Secretary of State for Digitalization and Administrative Modernization and the director of the national security office will go to Brussels for a meeting at NATO headquarters.
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DN writes that the Prime Minister’s Office took over the management of this group of security-related entities, such as Defense and Security Services.
Experts are still trying to understand the dimension, but the first key shipowners of the secret resources that point to access to attacks by the Defense of the General State and the Directorate-General for National Forces.
There would have been a breach of security rules, since non-secure lines were used for the treatment of classified documents, instead of the integrated military communications system.
To the DN, an official source of the Prime Minister’s office, the image of Portugal will be able to approve. São Bento assures the government can guarantee that the member of the Atlantic Defense Alliance and of all the Ministries of Defense Portugal, as a founding member of the Atlantic Defense Alliance, and every day “intact”, works as the Armed Forces work so that it is reliable.
The source says that “the exchange of information between the allies in terms of security of the permanent is at the bilateral and multilateral levels”.
The Defense also says that “all indications of attempted intrusion or potential breaches of security are investigated”.
This is the first time that Portugal does not see a security breach of NATO documents. The Diário de Notícias recalls that he already had seniority in favor of Frederico Carvalhão Gil, who was convicted four years ago for spying on Russia.