European Space Agency hit again as cybercriminals claim 200 GB data up for sale

54 pointsposted a month ago
by smurda

26 Comments

krick

a month ago

Was going to ask what's the data, but

> Compromised Data: Source Codes, CI/CD Pipelines, API Tokens, Access Tokens, Confidential Documents, Configuration Files, Terraform Files, SQL Files, Hardcoded Credentials and more!

Yeah, right. No wonder nobody bothered to buy and take a look. More of an insult to ESA, than a "data breach".

johnnienaked

a month ago

I'm old enough to remember being told not to put any personal information on the internet. Pretty soon, personal information will be mandatory to use the Internet. How ironic.

guessmyname

a month ago

> Compromised Data: Source Codes, CI/CD Pipelines, API Tokens, Access Tokens, Confidential Documents, Configuration Files, Terraform Files, SQL Files, Hardcoded Credentials and more!

And who is going to buy this (useless) data exactly? (half joking)

amelius

a month ago

Pay them a one-way ticket into space.

zb3

a month ago

Shouldn't this data be public anyway?

ahsillyme

a month ago

More or less. Unless it's something to do with the employee's privacy or something to that effect. Doesn't mean the criminals are the good guys here, since they're trying to make bank on it instead of releasing it to the public -- if it's something that the public has an interest in.

wtcactus

a month ago

No, not really. The science products eventually become public (after 1st access right by contributing nations). But why would the API keys (for instance) ever be public?

victorbjorklund

a month ago

Terraform files? Seems waste of time to have to make it public.

egorfine

a month ago

> didn't hear back, with an automated response informing us that the Agency's offices are closed for the New Year holiday

This is so on-brand for EU organizations.

eterm

a month ago

You say that as if it's a bad thing?

egorfine

a month ago

In this context (massive data breach) - it is.

PunchyHamster

a month ago

It's noncritical infrastructure by every definition and data was already stolen, waking up a PR guy to put something on their page is a waste of everyone's time

monkey_monkey

a month ago

What does their comms team have to do with the massive data breach?

egorfine

a month ago

Answers. These guys can provide answers to the public.

JumpCrisscross

a month ago

Aviate, navigate, communicate. In that order.

ESA’s priority in this case is measuring the damage and then brokering a solution if needed. After that it should communicate to the public.

barrucadu

a month ago

Are these answers so critical they're needed on a holiday?

egorfine

a month ago

I don't know. There's nobody in the comms team to answer this question.

monkey_monkey

a month ago

OK, so nothing to do with the massive data breach. But hey, you just really want to make a point about how upset you are that Europeans having decent work/life balance, so there's not point continuing to expose your little agenda.

lillecarl

a month ago

Ah yes, responding to the media during holidays will make the data crawl back to their servers!

blell

a month ago

If this were a private business, people would be piling on and calling for the executives to face a firing squad.

nubg

a month ago

"People" here meaning in particular the types that frequent this very message board.

pavel_lishin

a month ago

You can find a certain group of people to pile on for anything.

dotgov

a month ago

National Labs are closed over the holidays in the USA too.

user

a month ago

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