Cybersecurity incident — 2016-01-31 00:00:00
Affected organization: NASA
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Physical Attack
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Anonsec
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Undetermined

The AnonSec collective claims to have broken into the computer systems of NASA, partially hijacking a drone, stealing hours of on-board footage from the agency's fleet of aircraft, hundreds of data logs from its weather and climate missions, as well as a list of names, phone numbers and emails of more than 2,400 employess.