Once again, NASA has made it into the news because of a cyber security issue. This time, the problem accused due to a misconfiguration of the NASA Jira Server which resulted in data leakage. Allegedly,

Continuing the trail of data breaches, now NASA joins the list. NASA confirmed the data breach to its employees since noticing an internal server that was compromised by so far unidentified hackers. NASA

Data breaches are not unusual in this day and age. In fact, the frequency of such incidents makes them look like the norm. However, it becomes more alarming when things go wrong at government institutions.