European Space Agency external research and engineering servers breached
The European Space Agency has confirmed a breach of external servers supporting unclassified collaborative research and engineering activities. The attacker claimed to have stolen more than 200GB of data, including private Bitbucket repositories. The European Space Agency is investigating the scope of the damage.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- European Space Agency (ESA)
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Attacker claims theft of more than 200GB of data
- Cause / method
- Breach of external servers
- Location
- France
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Timeline
- The European Space Agency confirmed a data breach.
- The breach of external servers and the attacker's claim of stealing more than 200GB were reported, and the agency said it was investigating the scope of the damage.
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