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June 8, 2018 / 2:49 PM / Updated 2 hours ago

China hacked sensitive U.S. Navy undersea warfare plans: Washington Post

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-cyber/china-hacked-sensitive-us-navy-undersea-warfare-plans-washington-post-idUSKCN1J42MM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chinese government hackers compromised the computers of a U.S. Navy contractor and stole a large amount of highly sensitive data on undersea warfare, including plans for a supersonic anti-ship missile for use on U.S. submarines, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing unnamed U.S. officials.

The breaches took place in January and February, the officials told the Post, speaking on condition of anonymity about an ongoing investigation led by the Navy and assisted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The FBI did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

“Per federal regulations, there are measures in place that require companies to notify the government when a ‘cyber incident’ has occurred that has actual or potential adverse effects on their networks that contain controlled unclassified information. It would be inappropriate to discuss further details at this time,” the U.S. Navy said in response to a query from Reuters.

The hackers targeted a contractor who works for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, a military entity based in Newport, Rhode Island, the unnamed officials said without identifying the contractor, according to the Post.

The hacked material comprised 614 gigabytes relating to a project known as Sea Dragon, as well as signals and sensor data, submarine radio room information relating to cryptographic systems and the Navy submarine development unit’s electronic warfare library, the Post reported, citing the officials.

The newspaper said it had agreed to withhold some details about the compromised missile project after the Navy said their release could harm national security.

The data stolen was of a highly sensitive nature despite being housed on the contractor’s unclassified network, the Post said, citing the officials.

Former CIA officer Kevin Mallory found guilty of selling secrets to China

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/former-cia-officer-kevin-mallory-found-guilty-of-selling-secrets-to-china/2018/06/08/918a0b82-69ad-11e8-9e38-24e693b38637_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4ef1d040d97c

by Rachel Weiner June 8 at 4:12 PM Email the author

Kevin Mallory has always been a risk taker. In a twenty-year career in intelligence, he violated the terms of his top secret security clearance at least twice.

Last year he took his biggest gamble yet: simultaneously selling secrets to Chinese intelligence officers for $25,000 and exposing those spies to his old colleagues at the Central Intelligence Agency.

Mallory, 61, bet a jury would believe he was acting as a freelance triple agent, luring the Chinese in so he could hand them over to U.S. authorities.

He lost.

On Friday, jurors in Alexandria federal court found the former CIA officer guilty of espionage and related charges.

Mallory “never wanted to help the U.S. government,” Assistant U.S. Attorney John Gibbs said during closing arguments Thursday. “That is totally and completely absurd.”

Whatever his motivations, Mallory ended up providing American intelligence details of how the Chinese recruit and communicate with foreign assets. And by maintaining his innocence and going to trial, he gave the public a glimpse of spy games that rarely see the light.

The two-week trial included testimony from an undercover CIA contractor and high-ranking intelligence officials, and it was closely watched by representatives of several “three-letter agencies,” as Judge T.S. Ellis III joked. Jurors saw the two classified documents Mallory sent to the Chinese and six more he loaded onto an SD card, in the process learning some details of a still-classified Defense Intelligence Operation and reading a CIA analysis of another foreign country’s intelligence capabilities.

Mallory, of Leesburg, is a U.S. Army veteran who along with the CIA and DIA worked for several defense and intelligence contractors. By 2012, though, he had left government and was running his own consulting firm, with little success. He was three months behind on his mortgage and in serious debt when a Chinese headhunter reached out to him on LinkedIn in February 0f 2017.