European Space Agency Acknowledges Another Breach as Criminals Claim 200 GB Data Haul
(Thursday January 01, 2026 @11:01AM (msmash)
from the PSA dept.)
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The European Space Agency has [1]acknowledged yet another security incident after a cybercriminal posted an offer on BreachForums the day after Christmas claiming to have stolen over 20GB of data including source code, confidential documents, API tokens and credentials.
The attacker claims they gained access to ESA-linked external servers on December 18 and remained connected for about a week, during which they allegedly exfiltrated private Bitbucket repositories, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform files and hardcoded credentials. ESA said that the breach may have affected only "a very small number of external servers" used for unclassified engineering and scientific collaboration, and that it has initiated a forensic security analysis.
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/european_space_agency_hacked/
The attacker claims they gained access to ESA-linked external servers on December 18 and remained connected for about a week, during which they allegedly exfiltrated private Bitbucket repositories, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform files and hardcoded credentials. ESA said that the breach may have affected only "a very small number of external servers" used for unclassified engineering and scientific collaboration, and that it has initiated a forensic security analysis.
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/european_space_agency_hacked/
Why was the network not secure? (Score:2)
Itâ(TM)s not exactly rocket science, is it?
Re: Why was the network not secure? (Score:2)
Nor is Unicode support, for that matter.