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Swiss Air Force data exposed in hacker attack on US firm

Documents from the Swiss Air Force, among others, have been exposed in a hacker attack on US security company Ultra Intelligence & Communications.

Published: 6 January 2024 18:55 CET
Code on a computer.
Code on a computer. Swiss Air Force documents been subject to a data breach on a US security firm. Photo by Jake Walker on Unsplash

In total, around 30 gigabytes of data, including classified documents, were stolen and have now appeared on the dark web, where anyone can access them. 

The hacked US company also supplies the Swiss Department of Defence (DDPS) and Swiss aerospace engineering and defence industry business Ruag with encryption and communication technology.

The documents that have surfaced on the dark web include a contract between the DDPS and the US company for almost five million dollars.

READ ALSO: Swiss administration hit by cyber attack

The contract is said to relate to the purchase of encrypted communications technology for the Swiss Air Force. 

The name ‘Ruag’ also appeared in the leaked documents, which seem to relate to technologies it has been acquiring from the US company since 2017.

The VBS confirmed the hacker attack to Swiss public TV SRF Investigativ.

“Ultra Intelligence & Communications informed Armasuisse and the Defence Group of the ransomware attack,” they said, adding that further investigations were underway.

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Mystery persists as missing Swiss paintings reappear

One of the Switzerland's top art museums announced Sunday the return of two paintings that went missing last year, refusing to provide details in a case still under investigation.

Published: 26 May 2024 20:01 CEST
Mystery persists as missing Swiss paintings reappear

Kunsthaus Zurich offered in June 2023 a reward of 10,000 Swiss francs ($11,100) for information that could help it track one painting by Flemish painter Robert van den Hoecke and another by the Dutch Golden Age artist Dirck de Bray.

The small paintings disappeared when the Kunsthaus took down more than 700 works for cleaning and restoration after a fire broke out in August 2022.

But no trace of the two paintings could later be found.

On Sunday, the museum said only that its restoration experts had confirmed both paintings were in “good condition”, with no indication of how or when they turned up.

Because of ongoing police inquiries, “no further information will be released for the time being,” the Kunsthaus said.

Museum officials had alerted the missing works to the Art Loss Register, the world’s largest database of lost and stolen pieces.

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