European Space Agency hit again as cybercriminals claim 200 GB data up for sale(www.theregister.com)
54 pointsby smurdaa month ago6 comments
  • kricka 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".

  • johnnienakeda 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.
  • guessmynamea 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)

  • ameliusa month ago
    Pay them a one-way ticket into space.
  • zb3a month ago
    Shouldn't this data be public anyway?
    • ahsillymea 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.
    • wtcactusa 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?
    • victorbjorklunda month ago
      Terraform files? Seems waste of time to have to make it public.
  • egorfinea 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.

    • eterma month ago
      You say that as if it's a bad thing?
      • egorfinea month ago
        In this context (massive data breach) - it is.
        • PunchyHamstera 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_monkeya month ago
          What does their comms team have to do with the massive data breach?
          • egorfinea month ago
            Answers. These guys can provide answers to the public.
            • JumpCrisscrossa 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.

            • barrucadua month ago
              Are these answers so critical they're needed on a holiday?
              • egorfinea month ago
                I don't know. There's nobody in the comms team to answer this question.
            • monkey_monkeya 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.
        • lillecarla month ago
          Ah yes, responding to the media during holidays will make the data crawl back to their servers!
          • blella month ago
            If this were a private business, people would be piling on and calling for the executives to face a firing squad.
            • nubga month ago
              "People" here meaning in particular the types that frequent this very message board.
            • pavel_lishina month ago
              You can find a certain group of people to pile on for anything.
      • monkey_monkeya month ago
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    • dotgova month ago
      National Labs are closed over the holidays in the USA too.
    • a month ago
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