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European space agency confirms 'external servers' breached in cyberattack

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  • ESA confirmed cyberattack affecting external servers used for collaborative engineering activities
  • Hacker “888” claims theft of 200 GB data, including source code, tokens, and configs
  • Incident follows last year’s ESA web shop breach involving a credit card skimmer

The European Space Agency (ESA) was hit with a cyberattack earlier this week and apparently lost sensitive data in the process. The agency confirmed the news on X, saying it is currently investigating the incident:

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