- Jan 24, 2011
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The website of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been hacked into and a list of FTP accounts, as well as email addresses and passwords for administrators and editors have been leaked.
The www.esa.int Web server was compromised by a well known Romanian grey hat hacker who uses the online moniker of TinKode.
The hacker posted details of the compromise on his blog in full disclosure style. However, the method he used was not revealed.
The published data includes FTP accounts for a range of ESA subsites with passwords in clear text.
A list of database users with hashed passwords was also disclosed, together with the SHA1-hashed server root password.
The site administrator and editor credentials were exposed in plain text, as well as email addresses and passwords corresponding to website user accounts.
The passwords are in readable form, but TinKode took the measure of partially hiding them before publishing. There is also a list of associated proxy user names and passwords.
More details - link
The www.esa.int Web server was compromised by a well known Romanian grey hat hacker who uses the online moniker of TinKode.
The hacker posted details of the compromise on his blog in full disclosure style. However, the method he used was not revealed.
The published data includes FTP accounts for a range of ESA subsites with passwords in clear text.
A list of database users with hashed passwords was also disclosed, together with the SHA1-hashed server root password.
The site administrator and editor credentials were exposed in plain text, as well as email addresses and passwords corresponding to website user accounts.
The passwords are in readable form, but TinKode took the measure of partially hiding them before publishing. There is also a list of associated proxy user names and passwords.
More details - link
