[HN Gopher] European Space Agency hit again as cybercriminals cl...
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European Space Agency hit again as cybercriminals claim 200 GB data
up for sale
Author : smurda
Score : 44 points
Date : 2026-01-01 16:28 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theregister.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theregister.com)
| egorfine wrote:
| > 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 wrote:
| You say that as if it's a bad thing?
| egorfine wrote:
| In this context (massive data breach) - it is.
| monkey_monkey wrote:
| What does their comms team have to do with the massive data
| breach?
| egorfine wrote:
| Answers. These guys can provide answers to the public.
| barrucadu wrote:
| Are these answers so critical they're needed on a
| holiday?
| egorfine wrote:
| I don't know. There's nobody in the comms team to answer
| this question.
| monkey_monkey wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Ah yes, responding to the media during holidays will make
| the data crawl back to their servers!
| blell wrote:
| If this were a private business, people would be piling
| on and calling for the executives to face a firing squad.
| nubg wrote:
| "People" here meaning in particular the types that
| frequent this very message board.
| pavel_lishin wrote:
| You can find a certain group of people to pile on for
| _anything_.
| PunchyHamster wrote:
| 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
| amelius wrote:
| Pay them a one-way ticket into space.
| zb3 wrote:
| Shouldn't this data be public anyway?
| ahsillyme wrote:
| 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.
| victorbjorklund wrote:
| Terraform files? Seems waste of time to have to make it public.
| wtcactus wrote:
| 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?
| krick wrote:
| 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".
| guessmyname wrote:
| > _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)_
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