A database of Polish military assets - from screws and notebooks to anti-tank missiles and F-16 fighters - has leaked online. Some of the information is extremely valuable to foreign intelligence. According to our informant, a cyber security specialist, the database has already been downloaded by users from more than a dozen countries, including Russia and China. The leak has been confirmed unofficially by two independent sources connected with special services. The military is currently searching for the culprits and is estimating losses.
The leak most likely originated from the Logistic Planning Headquarters in the Inspectorate of Armed Forces Support in Bydgoszcz
The information found on the net includes, among others, armament of the Polish army, ammunition, spare parts for combat machines or specialist software
The disclosed equipment includes also those purchased by the Polish army in the USA, Germany and Israel
- This is strategic data, which is sought after by e.g. Russian intelligence - says Gen. Piotr Pytel, former head of the Military Counterintelligence Service. In his opinion, such information is worth huge money
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Data on the material resources of the Polish army appeared in the net on Sunday, 9 January - claim Onet sources. The army was to find out about it a day later. According to our sources, the leak was tracked by the military's National Cyber Security Centre, which informed the military services about it.
The military data disclosed on the web amounts to 1 million 757 thousand 390 records. To show the scale of the leak, suffice it to say that firearms of calibre up to 30 mm and their parts and tooling alone amount to 2 thousand 800 items. Each item, or record, is the reported equipment requirements of each unit - from entire F-16s, to heavy weapons, their parts, ammunition for them, spare parts, to uniforms, underwear, blankets and computer equipment, and even flags and diplomas. From over 1.7 million disclosed records emerges a detailed state of possession of the entire Polish army, as well as its equipment shortages. The inventory makes it possible to determine, for example, which equipment is inoperable or what the Polish army is missing.
