US deputy defense secretary William J Lynn will not say which contractor was holding the data or which country stole it, but he says over the past few years, information about some of the Pentagon's most sensitive programs has been pilfered from military contractors.
"Over the past decade terabytes of data have been extracted by foreign intruders from corporate networks of defense companies. Indeed in a single intrusion this past March, 24,000 files were taken," he said.
The admission came as the US defence department announced a new cyber warfare strategy, aimed at securing the military's secrets...
He says it is not the only attack... (more)
