NASA Says No Sensitive Information Breached in Unknowns Hack - rubiohadvaid

NASA acknowledged Fri an aggress along one of its websites by "The Unknowns," a group that has been publically trickling information on websites it has hacked o'er the last few weeks.

The Unknowns claimed to have hacked a NASA website hosted at the Glenn Search Center on May 1, aforesaid Sortie V. Harrington, a public affairs medical specialist with the center in Cleveland, Ohio, in an email financial statement.

"NASA security officials detected an trespass into the site on April 20 and took it offline," she aforesaid. "The agency takes the issue of IT security very seriously and at no point was highly sensitive or controlled information compromised."

The Unknowns posted a wrap high of several weeks of hacking on Pastebin earlier this calendar week, claiming to have also hit a subdomain belonging to the U.S. US Air Force, the French Ministry of Defense and the European Quad Agency, among others.

The group besides claimed to give birth hacked the Bahrain Ministry of Defense, but the internet site really belongs to the Ministry of Maturation in Brunei, a small nation on Borneo next to Malaysia.

The Unknowns discharged about 215MB of documents that it said came from the U.S. Free-flying Force. The info varied from receipts for expense reports to documents corresponding emergency communications plans. Many documents were dated 2012, and many carried the label "unclassified." U.S Air Pull down officials did not have an immediate comment.

The Unknowns wrote on its Twitter feed upon Thursday that "we're soon going to e-mail our victims making known them on how we penetrated…their databases, they will suffer wholly the info they need."

On its Pastebin post, the radical gave a piece more perceptivity into its motives, saying to the websites affected "we probably harmed you a bit but that's non really our goal." They said if they desirable to do impairment, the websites would have been defaced.

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