Ukraine claims it hacked Tupolev, Russia’s strategic warplane maker

The Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense claims it hacked the Russian aerospace and defense company Tupolev, which develops Russia's supersonic strategic bombers. According to Ukrainian news outlets, a source within GUR said the military intelligence hackers breached Tupolev's systems and stole 4.4 gigabytes of classified information. This stolen data includes personal data of Tupolev personnel, internal communications (including messages exchanged by the company's management), procurement documents, resumes of engineers and designers, and minutes of closed meetings. While the source didn't disclose when Tupolev's systems were breached, it said the HUR hackers were inside Tupolev's network for a long time, sufficient to collect other information that could be used in future operations to compromise other organizations in Russia's defense sector. "The value of the data obtained is hard to overstate. There is now virtually nothing secret left in Tupole ... Read full article.