Space tech giant Maxar confirms hacker accessed employees’ personal data

U.S. space and satellite technology mammoth Maxar has verified a data breach involving its workers' particular information, according to a form with state controllers.  Colorado grounded Maxar operates imaging satellites and makes spacecraft, and claims to operate one of the largest constellations of marketable satellites in route. Maxar has long been a leading provider of marketable satellite imagery to the U.S. government, which uses the imagery for critical planning, intelligence gathering and disaster response. 

 In a needed data breach announcement filed with the California attorney general last week, Maxar said hackers using a Hong Kong IP address broke into the company's network on Oct. 4 and penetrated lines containing workers' particular data. It isn't yet known whether the contended hackers are grounded in Hong Kong or if they used waiters there to hide their factual position. 

 Maxar said it discovered the hack a week latterly, on October 11, and took" immediate action" to help farther unauthorized access to its systems." still, our disquisition indicates that the hackers may have penetrated system lines roughly one week before this action took place," Maxar's exposure countries. 

 The information in the compromised lines included workers' names, genders, addresses, Social Security figures, business contact information, employment status, hand figures and employment information, according to Maxar. According to the company's website, MAXAR has 2,600 workers, and further than half of them have reached US security blessing. These are necessary for the US government, similar as the public security charge, to carry out the classified work.  Maxar, which last time completed its$ 6.4 billion trade to private equity mammoth Advent International, hasn’t said how numerous of its workers were impacted by the breach.