Hacker hacks into NASA “again” and reports “vulnerabilities”; Here’s what the space agency did

A hacker claimed he has “hacked NASA again” and discovered “significant holes” in the US space agency’s security system. However, what NASA did next made internet users go “Wow!”

In a social media post, the hacker said that he had reported the vulnerabilities to the space agency to give them enough time to fix them. After fixing the gaps, NASA sent the hacker a thank you letter acknowledging his contribution to identifying the vulnerabilities of the agency’s systems and protecting them.

The hacker shared an image of the thank you letter signed by Mark Witt, NASA’s chief information officer, and said: “I hacked @NASA (again) and reported some vulnerabilities to them. Just today I received this thank you letter from them after they patched the loopholes!”

NASA acknowledged in the letter that the hacker’s actions helped protect the “integrity and availability” of its information infrastructure and praised him for identifying the vulnerability while following NASA’s Vulnerability Disclosure Policy (VDP).

“The ability to detect and report security vulnerabilities is a valuable skill in the information security industry,” NASA said.

The space agency also said that because of the hacker’s knowledge, it was able to ensure the “integrity and availability of NASA’s information.”

The space agency added that the letter was a “token of our appreciation” for the hacker’s efforts to “identify vulnerabilities and better enable NASA to continue its advances in science, technology, aviation and space exploration to provide knowledge, education, to improve innovation and the economy.” Vitality and Stewardship of the Earth.”

They also said, “We are all in this as a security community,” and the hacker’s involvement and expertise “is commended.”

The post was viewed over 1.8 million times and prompted several users to flood the comments section.

“Wow huge W congrats legend,” one user said.

“Good for NASA for rewarding safety researchers (instead of punishing them with legal action), it’s really only in their best interest. Big shout out and congratulations to you good sir,” said another.

One user commented: “That’s a super cool job you did! Wow!”

“This is worth at least as much as a degree LOL,” another user added.

One user said: “As a kid, hacking NASA was more important to me than going to space. That’s top notch.”

“This is really super cool,” said another.

“’I hacked NASA’ is a damn good sentence. But then casually popping in “(again)” is great,” another user commented.

One user suggested that the hacker next hack into Elon Musk’s SpaceX to see what happens next. “Next, hack Space X and see what happens?”