Allegedly stolen Lockheed Martin data being peddled for almost $600M

Leading U.S. global security, defense, and aerospace contractor Lockheed Martin has 375 TB of data purportedly stolen from its systems by pro-Iran hacktivist collective APT Iran being offered for an exclusive buyout price of $598.5 million on the Threat Market dark web marketplace, HackRead reports.

In a post on its Telegram account on Mar. 26, Threat Market announced that it had approved APT Iran's request for infrastructure to peddle the data trove obtained from Lockheed Martin, while noting the use of cryptocurrency mixers for managing illicit proceeds, reports HackRead. Threat Market posted three days later an ad for the complete data dump valued at about $374 million. Analysis of Threat Market screenshots obtained by HackRead revealed multiple data folders that referenced completed projects, internal source code, personnel details, email backups, and defense contracts, among others.

Threat Market's assertions come as the Iran-linked hacktivist operation Handala Hack Team, which had compromised leading U.S. medical tech firm Stryker and the personal email of FBI Director Kash Patel, claimed to have stolen personal information from a limited number of Lockheed Martin employees. Whether both incidents are related remains unclear.