According to the press, the General Staff of the Portuguese Armed Forces was attacked. Criminals managed to steal NATO’s secret documents.

what is known

• Journalists, citing their own sources, write that the General Staff learned of the attack after hackers posted samples of the stolen data on the darknet and announced that they would sell the entire dump to interested parties.
• The first to notice the offer to sell classified data were American cyber-intelligence agents who reported their discovery to the US Embassy in Lisbon, and diplomats warned the Portuguese government of the leak.
• Experts from the National Security Office and Portugal’s National Cyber ​​Security Center are currently investigating what happened.

It was a long-running and covert cyberattack in which bots programmed were used to detect such documents, which were then stolen in several stages.
– says a source close to the investigation.

Exactly what information is currently in the hands of the criminals is unclear, but the same anonymous sources reported that “extremely serious” documents were leaked and their distribution could lead to a real crisis of trust in NATO in Portugal.

There was no official statement from Portuguese authorities on what happened.