Η hacking ομάδα AnonSec έχει δημοσιεύσει δεδομένα που περιέχουν στοιχεία από 2.414 υπαλλήλους της NASA, 631 video with recordings from various NASA aircraft and radars and 2.143 flight logs.
In the text that accompanied the data, the AnonSec said that NASA was accidentally hacked into 2013 when one of the Gozi viruses released on the internet infected one of the server's servers.
Using this initial access, the group's hackers were able to gain root access to the server in just 0.32 seconds λόγω του εξαιρετικά απλού κωδικού πρόσβασης διαχειριστή.
The team not only retained access to the hacked server, but over time they managed to extend their access to NASA's internal network, ultimately breaking up three NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices.
NASA used these devices to download and then create copies security of flight plans from the missions of the unmanned aircraft (drones). AnonSec members gained root access to these devices and stole some of the data stored on the hard drive.
Αργότερα, οι hackers μπόρεσαν να βλέπουν τις CCTV κάμερες από το Glenn Research Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, and Dryden Flight Research Center.
AnonSec members also uncovered video recordings from NASA Global Hawk drones and Operation Ice Bridge regular missions.
When analyzing some grid movements, hackers found that NASA engineers often loaded a predefined flight plan for most of their drone missions.
Using a simple MITM (Man-in-the-middle) attack, hackers took off one of these flight plans and replaced it with one of their own, which provided a NASA-rated Global Hawk Drone worth $ 222.700.000 to crash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean .
Although the managed team loaded a custom .gpx file that controls the unmanned aircraft according to its wishes, one of the NASA engineers detected a change in the original plan of the unmanned aircraft and thus manually took control of the ship .
Soon after this incident, NASA realized what was going on and AnonSec lost access to NASA servers. The team shared a screenshot showing that the violation of the drone flight plan took place on 9 April 2015.
Before uploading the files they had on Facebook and Infowars, hackers tried to communicate with Wikileaks and The Guardian. After a pre-update and initial access to the data, Infowars confirmed that the data contained accurate information about NASA's 2.414 employees, including names, email and phone numbers. But nobody accepted to publish the data, not even Wikileaks.
AnonSec has justified their actions by saying that the US and NASA have long been involved with cloud mechanics (cloud clouds, or chemtrails) and have handled local and global weather conditions.
The team has shared around 275GB data via BitTorrent links.
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