Australia’s largest defense exporter says it hasn’t responded to an extortion attempt after ship design schematics were stolen by a hacker.
Austal, which is based in Henderson, Western Australia, is one of the country’s largest shipbuilders; it has built vessels for the U.S. Navy.
The company, which is listed on Australia’s ASX stock exchange, announced the breach late Thursday. The announcement came just a day after a security researcher in France posted screenshots on Twitter of the purported stolen data.
Austal says the material is neither sensitive nor classified and that it has taken steps to secure its data systems.