AnonSec Claims To Have Controlled Drone After Stealing NASA Data

It looks like hacktivist group AnonSec is back under the spotlight once again, where they tout to have gotten control of a drone in addition to leaked data from NASA computers, and the reason behind this act is to prove a chemtrail conspiracy theory. Earlier this Monday, AnonSec revealed 250GB of data which they claimed were retrieved from NASA’s systems, and also touted that indicators of their presence on NASA’s network has been removed.

Apart from that, AnonSec also mentioned that copies of the encrypted data have been passed on to Wikileaks and The Guardian. The data allegedly carries information such as names, numbers and email addresses of 2,414 NASA staff, in addition to thousands of flight logs that make up NASA’s aircraft fleet. from the space agency’s fleet of aircraft.

NASA isn’t too perturbed about such a claim, as majority of the obtained information by AnonSec is already public. James Scott, senior fellow and co-founder of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, shared, “[T]his is just a claim at this stage and that is very important for people to understand. The information they are giving, for example the employee list for NASA, can be created with even a basic windows operating system exploit so the list doesn’t prove anything,” Scott said. “The screenshots that are supposedly from the drones flight pattern can easily be fraudulently designed. The website that ‘broke’ this story is not so reliable either.”

Edwin Kee
Categories: Robots
Tags: Drones, Hacking, NASA