A hacker recently entered the European Space Agency's (ESA) FTP servers and took sensitive data, including hundreds of passwords, usernames, e-mail addresses and server logs, according to ZDNet. The agency conceded there were some risks but noted the internal network and main site were not at risk because the networks were partitioned. An ESA spokesman did not give specifics on how the assailant breached the network but added, "it could have been achieved by an attacker sniffing usernames and passwords stored in plaintext and captured while in transit."
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