By NASA – The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration has affirmed that one of its servers faced threat through hack in October, with various employee information, comprising social security numbers, revealed to hackers.
NASA states it is presently alerting employees whose data may have been impacted in a statement circulated couple of days ago. An inquiry has already commenced, however NASA states Social Security numbers and various personally detectable data were saved on the cracked server.
“Upon discovery of the incidents, NASA cybersecurity personnel took immediate action to secure the servers and the data contained within. NASA and its Federal cybersecurity partners are continuing to examine the servers to determine the scope of the potential data exfiltration and identify potentially affected individuals,” the agency says.
Diversely, NASA figures out that the observation “will take time,” however indicates it has now turned into a “top agency priority.”
“No word on the hacking group who breached the server”
The firm demands there is no indication that any motive was influenced by the violation, however it is now getting to entire employees to let them aware that specific data has been revealed to attackers.
“Those NASA Civil Service employees who were on-boarded, separated from the agency, and/or transferred between Centers, from July 2006 to October 2018, may have been affected,” it says.
Entire employees will be arranged with new services, comprising support for status protection services, declaration reads of today.
There are no information as to how the server was violated or what attacking group may be after the incident at the stage. Given that the firm assumes this observation to acquire some time, don’t hold your breath for any data to be contributed in the oncoming weeks, though NASA confirms that even the chief leadership is sincerely engaged in the action.
