Hackers claim NATO server breach

A group of hackers going by the name of the 'Inj3ct0r Team' are claiming they have compromised a server belonging to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), PC World reports.

The files were posted on the MediaFire file-hosting site under the name “NATO Tomcat 5.5 Servlet Backup.” A member of the Inj3ct0r Team contacted via e-mail by IDG News Service wrote that the files were a “server backup, confidential data.”

According to Tech2, the group claims to have hacked the server Apache Tomcat Version 5.5.9 using a 1337 day pivotal exploit which is a zero day exploit.

A zero day exploit is basically a computer threat that tries to exploit computer application vulnerabilities that are unknown to others or the software developer.

They go on to claim that they are also able to deface the NATO Web site but will not do so. They claim they will just take the backup of the server and distribute it on the Internet.

Team Inj3ct0r told the Hacker News that the reason of hacking is “nuclear weapons, its development and financing,” informs the International Business Times.

Since its formation in 1949, NATO bases its objectives on the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949, which requires each member state to share the risk and responsibility of upholding international peace and security, according to Nuclearfiles.org.

Nuclear weapons have formed part of its collective defence policy, which calls for insuring “the ability to carry out strategic bombing including the prompt delivery of the atomic bomb. This is primarily a US responsibility assisted as practicable by other nations.”

NATO upholds a policy of nuclear deterrence, or 'nuclear sharing,' which involves basing nuclear weapons on the territories of non-nuclear weapon states.