Secondo l’azienda statunitense di intelligence Cyber Engineering Services Inc. (CyberESI), alcuni hacker – forse dalla Cina – si sono introdotti fra il 2011 e il 2012 in tre delle maggiori aziende israeliane di difesa, rubando documenti riservati relativi al progetto Iron Dome. Sul suo blog Brian Krebs scrive:
By tapping into the secret communications infrastructure set up by the hackers, CyberESI determined that the attackers exfiltrated large amounts of data from the three companies. Most of the information was intellectual property pertaining to Arrow III missiles, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), ballistic rockets, and other technical documents in the same fields of study.
Joseph Drissel, CyberESI’s founder and chief executive, said the nature of the exfiltrated data and the industry that these companies are involved in suggests that the Chinese hackers were looking for information related to Israel’s all-weather air defense system called Iron Dome.
Analizzate le modalità dell’attacco, si pensa che questo sia opera dell’Unità 61398 dell’esercito cinese.