European Space Agency suffers an information leakage
More than 8000 suscriptors had their personal data, including email, phone and plaintext passwords published in the Internet. A group of cybercriminals, under the banner of Anonymous, took advantage of vulnerability in SQL to dump the databases' content in several ESA subdomains.
References:
- 15/12/2015 hotforsecurity.com European Space agency hacked. Staff and subscribers’ data exposed
- 14/12/2015 computerworld.com Attackers hack European Space Agency, leak thousands of credentials 'for the lulz'
- 15/12/2015 ibtimes.co.uk Anonymous claims hacking European Space Agency, exposes thousands of passwords for 'Lulz'