‘Chinese spies steel designs of weapons Dutch army’

Chinese ‘cyberspionnen’ have the design of many U.s. weapon systems are stolen. The thefts were probably done through the computer systems of the companies that help the systems to build. The weapons are also in use in the Dutch army.

These are the designs for aircraft, helicopters, ships and defense system THAAD, reports The Washington Post. Also the design of the MIM-104 Patriot, a missile system for aircraft out of the sky to shoot, and also the armoury of the Dutch army belongs to, it would have been stolen. That the design for the Joint Strike Fighter was stolen, was already out.

The Dutch army and indirectly Dutch taxpayers are the dupe of theft, because the equipment is bought with money from the Dutch government.

How the thefts have taken place, states the report. Probably going to break-ins into computer systems of companies, the production of components. According to anonymous sources that The Washington Post felt it, know a lot of these companies is not that they are hackable, “until the FEDS come back’. China is not named in the report, but the government of that country is by anonymous sources, cited as the source of the cyber-espionage.

To the thefts, the companies existing anti-malware software use the American secret service NSA has developed. When the thefts have taken place, is also unknown. Supposedly it goes over a longer time period: the data of the JSF were already five years ago, stolen.

The United States is not the only country where confidential data from companies that carry out missions for the government would be stolen. In Australia would be the design of a new headquarters of the secret service by Chinese cyberspionnen were stolen, claims tv channel ABC.