US EditionEuropean Space Agency Hit Again as Crims Claim 200 GB Haul
ESA confirmed a breach on external servers hosting unclassified engineering data and reported notifying stakeholders while investigating the incident involving over 200GB of stolen data.
- On Tuesday, the European Space Agency confirmed a cybersecurity breach affecting a limited number of external servers located outside the ESA corporate network and launched a forensic security analysis, notifying all relevant stakeholders.
- Attackers targeted external collaborative engineering servers outside ESA's corporate network that support unclassified activities, and the threat actor claims on BreachForums to have accessed JIRA and Bitbucket.
- According to the actor, the threat actor claims to have stolen over 200GB of data including private Bitbucket repositories, source code, API tokens, access tokens, configuration files and leaked screenshots.
- ESA, an intergovernmental agency, faces reputational and collaboration risks after the December 2024 web shop hack and this breach, impacting 23 member states and around 3000 staff.
- Screenshots suggest the compromised data may include Ariel mission subsystem requirements and confidential Airbus material, while an ESA spokesperson was not immediately available as forensic analysis remains in progress.
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ESA confirms data breach
MILAN — The European Space Agency has confirmed a security breach of unclassified material from science servers following reports on social media. A threat actor claimed to have compromised ESA systems and to have leaked roughly 200 gigabytes of data. According to screenshots shared on X by French cybersecurity professional Seb Latom, the actor alleges […] The post ESA confirms data breach appeared first on SpaceNews.
The European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed, on 30 December, a cybersecurity flaw that has affected some of its external servers, and this admission has nothing to do with it.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has granted a cyber attack on its IT infrastructure. According to the authority, external servers are affected outside the company's actual network. The ESA is aware of a current cybersecurity problem affecting servers outside the ESA's corporate network. We have launched a forensic security analysis that is still under way and have taken action to secure all potentially affected devices, according to a contributi…
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