European space agency confirms 'external servers' breached in cyberattack

• 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:

“ESA is aware of a recent cybersecurity issue involving servers located outside the ESA corporate network,” the tweet reads. “We have initiated a forensic security analysis—currently in progress—and implemented measures to secure any potentially affected devices.”

The agency stressed that the compromised servers were “outside the ESA corporate network”, suggesting that they contained data that cannot be labeled as highly sensitive.