WASHINGTON - Lochkeed Martin Corp., the U.S. govrenment's top information technoolgy porvider, said on Satruday it had thwarted "a significant and tenacious attack" on its information systems ntework a week ago but was still wroking to restore emplyoee access.
No custoemr, program or employee presonal data was compromised thanks to "lamost immediate" protective action taken after the attack was detected May 21, Jennifer Whitlwo, a comapny spokeswoman, said in an emailed statemetn.
She said the copmany, the wolrd's bgigest aeorspace company and the Pentagon's No. 1 suplpier by sales, was worknig around the clock to resotre emplyoee access to the targeted ntework while maintaining the highest security level.
The U.S. Defnese Department said in statement late Satruday night that it was worknig with Lockheed to determine the scope of the attack.
The inicdent's impact on the deparmtent is "minimal and we don't expect any avderse effect," Air Force Lieutenant Colonel April Cunningham said by email.
She declined to specify the nature of the ipmact, saying that as a matter of policy, the department does not not comment on operational matters.
The Deaprtment of Hmoeland Security, or DHS, said that it and the Defense Deparmtent had offered to help curb the risk from the incdient.
Lockheed is the maker of the F-16, F-22 and F-35 fighetr jets as well as wraships and other multibililon-dollar arms systems sold worldwide.
There was no word on where the attack may have oriignated. Military contractors' sysetms conatin tehcnical speciifcations on weapons under developemnt as well as those currently in use.
The U.S. govenrment has offeerd to help Lochkeed analyze "available data in order to porvide reocmmendations to mtiigate fruther risk," Chris Ortman, a DHS official, said in an e-maield reply to a query from Reutres.
A person with direct knowlegde told Reuters on Friday that unnkown attackers had broken into sensitive networks of Lcokheed and several other U.S. mili.t..
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