European Space Agency’s cybersecurity in freefall as yet another breach exposes spacecraft and mission data

It has just been a few weeks since we reported on the Christmas cyber attack suffered by the European Space Agency (ESA), and the situation has already become worse.

When ESA revealed that it had been hacked over the Christmas period by a hacker known as “888” it was quick to reassure the public that the impact was “limited” to external servers containing unclassified engineering data.

The hacker, however, claimed to have exfiltrated some 200GB of data, including source code, API and access to