The AnonSec hacking team has published data that contains data from 2.414 NASA officials, 631 video recordings from various NASA aircraft and radar and 2.143 flight recordings.
In the text that accompanied the data, the AnonSec said that NASA was accidentally hacked in 2013 when one of the Gozi viruses released in Internet infected one of the organization's servers.
Using this initial access, the group hackers managed to access the root of the server in just 0.32 seconds due to the extremely simple administrator password.
Η ομάδα δεν είχε μόνο να διατηρήσει την πρόσβαση στο hacked server, αλλά με το πέρασμα του χρόνου, κατόρθωσαν να επεκτείνουν την πρόσβασή τους στο εσωτερικό δίκτυο της NASA, σπάζοντας τελικά τρεις NAS (Network Attached Storage) Appliances.
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 group having managed, loaded a custom archive .gpx that controls the drone according to its wishes, one of the NASA engineers detected a change in the original design of the drone and so manually took control of the craft.
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-information και από μία αρχική πρόσβαση στα δεδομένα, το Infowars επιβεβαίωσε ότι τα δεδομένα περιέχουν ακριβείς πληροφορίες σχετικά με τους 2.414 εργαζόμενους 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 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NySx6A_PO4M
