Iranian source viewed data on presidential helo

Iranian source viewed data on presidential helo
By Donna Borak - The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Mar 2, 2009 21:08:01 EST

WASHINGTON — The Navy is investigating how an unauthorized user in Iran gained online access to blueprints and other information about a helicopter in President Barack Obama’s fleet.

Employees at data monitoring firm Tiversa last week discovered that potentially sensitive information about the helicopter had been viewed by a “malicious” source in Iran, company spokesman Scott Harrer said Monday.

Tiversa late last year notified a Bethesda, Md.-based defense contractor that there was an “open window” in their network leaking information about the helicopter. But the first known breach came last week by an Iranian source who had been actively trying to harvest sensitive information, Harrer said.

Lockheed Martin Corp., which is headquartered in Bethesda and manufacturing a new fleet of presidential helicopters, is not the source of the leak, Harrer said. But he declined to identify Tiversa’s client, or the source of the leak.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said the information accessed about the aircraft is unclassified, and the president does not ride in that specific helicopter.


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