Η hacking group AnonSec has published data containing information from 2.414 NASA employees, 631 videos 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.
Χρησιμοποιώντας αυτή την αρχική πρόσβαση, οι hackers της ομάδας κατάφεραν να αποκτήσουν πρόσβαση στον root του server in just 0.32 seconds due to the extremely simple admin password.
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 made use of these devices to download and then back up flight plans from missions of unmanned aircraft (drones). AnonSec members got root access to these devices and stole some of the data stored on the hard disk.
Later, hackers were able to see CCTV cameras from the Glenn Research Center, the Goddard Space Flight Center, and the 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.
Πριν να ανεβάσουν τα αρχεία που είχαν στα χέρια τους στο Facebook και στο Infowars, οι hackers προσπάθησαν να επικοινωνήσουν με το Wikileaks και την The Guardian. Μετά από μία προ-ενημέρωση και από μία αρχική πρόσβαση στα δεδομένα, το Infowars επιβεβαίωσε ότι τα δεδομένα περιέχουν ακριβείς information σχετικά με τους 2.414 employees της NASA που μέσα σε αυτές περιλαμβάνονται όνομα, email και αριθμούς τηλεφώνου. Όμως κανένας δεν δέχθηκε να δημοσιεύσει τα δεδομένα, ούτε καν το Wikileaks.
AnonSec justified their actions by saying that the USA and NASA have long engaged in climate engineering (clouds, or chemtrails) and have manipulated local and global weather conditions.
The team has shared around 275GB data via BitTorrent links.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NySx6A_PO4M
