{"id":211769,"date":"2025-12-30T18:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/211769\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T18:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:05:08","slug":"esa-says-data-breach-was-limited-to-servers-with-unclassified-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/211769\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA Says Data Breach Was Limited to Servers with Unclassified Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ESA-Says-Data-Breach-Was-Limited-to-Servers-with-Unclassified-Documents.webp.webp\" alt=\"ESA has downplayed the severity of a recent data breach, stating that it affected a limited number of external science servers storing only unclassified documents.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5802 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 800px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 800\/500;\"\/>Credit: European Spaceflight \/ @seblatombe (X)<\/p>\n<p>The European Space Agency (ESA) has released an initial statement regarding an alleged data breach, stating that it affected a \u201cvery limited number of science servers located outside the ESA corporate network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On 26 December, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/seblatombe\/status\/2004330002624446616?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports began to emerge on X<\/a> claiming that ESA had suffered a significant data breach, with a hacker using the alias \u201c888\u201d offering more than 200 gigabytes of data for sale. According to the hacker\u2019s listing, the allegedly compromised data included source code for proprietary software, sensitive project documentation, API tokens, and hardcoded credentials.<\/p>\n<p>In an initial statement issued on 29 December, the agency said it was aware of the alleged data breach and that a forensic analysis was underway. On 30 December, the European Space Agency confirmed that its initial findings indicated that a data breach had occurred, while seemingly downplaying its severity by characterising its impact as \u201climited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this stage, the forensic analysis has identified a very limited number of science servers, located outside the ESA corporate network, that may be affected,\u201d the statement said. \u201cThese servers are used for unclassified collaborative engineering solutions within the scientific community. Relevant stakeholders have been notified. Further updates will be provided once the analysis is complete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The agency added that relevant stakeholders had been notified and that \u201cshort-term remediation measures\u201d had been implemented to secure any potentially affected devices. Further updates are expected as the forensic analysis continues.<\/p>\n<p>        Keep European Spaceflight Independent<\/p>\n<p>Your donation will help European Spaceflight to continue digging into the stories others miss. Every euro keeps our reporting alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: European Spaceflight \/ @seblatombe (X) The European Space Agency (ESA) has released an initial statement regarding an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[9880,85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-211769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-european-space-agency","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}