Russian Nuclear Site Blueprints Exposed In Public Procurement Database (cybernews.com)
- Reference: 0177885163
- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/05/31/2033201/russian-nuclear-site-blueprints-exposed-in-public-procurement-database
- Source link: https://cybernews.com/security/russian-missile-program-exposed-in-procurement-database/
"Data, including building plans, diagrams, equipment, and other schematics, is accessible to anyone in the public procurement database."
> Journalists from Danwatch and Der Spiegel scraped and analyzed over two million documents from the public procurement database, which exposed Russian nuclear facilities, including their layout, in great detail. The investigation unveils that European companies participate in modernizing them. According to the exclusive Der Spiegel report, Russian procurement documents expose some of the world's most secret construction sites. "It even contains floor plans and infrastructure details for nuclear weapons silos," the report reads.
Some [2]details from the Amsterdam-based Moscow Times :
> Among the leaked materials are construction plans, security system diagrams and details of wall signage inside the facilities, with messages like "Stop! Turn around! Forbidden zone!," "The Military Oath" and "Rules for shoe care." Details extend to power grids, IT systems, alarm configurations, sensor placements and reinforced structures designed to withstand external threats...
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> "Material like this is the ultimate intelligence," said Philip Ingram, a former colonel in the British Army's intelligence corps. "If you can understand how the electricity is conducted or where the water comes from, and you can see how the different things are connected in the systems, then you can identify strengths and weaknesses and find a weak point to attack."
Apparently Russian defense officials were making public procurement notices for their construction projects — and then attaching sensitive documents to those public notices...
[1] https://cybernews.com/security/russian-missile-program-exposed-in-procurement-database/
[2] https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/28/russias-vast-nuclear-modernization-exposed-in-unprecedented-security-breach-der-spiegel-a89262
Either an "own goal" or a "fake out" (Score:2)
This is either a major blunder by the Russians, or it's designed to deceive, either by its false-ness or by its incomplete-ness.
Journalism equals espionage? (Score:2)
At what point does a reporter become a spy? Journalists believe they have the right not to be shot as intelligence agents because they aren't. But this case seems to confirm every authoritarian government's opinion that actually they are.
So - great story, but should they have done it?
Grandma told me a story once (Score:1)
She'd been an engineer in the Soviet State Industrial Design Bureau in Kiev (GiProStrom). She designed factories and office buildings. She said she'd had to sign in to a secure room to look at floor plans for what she was working on, and she wasn't allowed to take notes. Because in Soviet Union, steel mills and the like were state secrets.
Why can't they leak secrets like everyone else? (Score:2)
This stuff belongs in War Thunder forums!