Paul Martin told the Inspector General for NASA to a congressional committee on safety measures that the administration at NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration is spending $ 58 million just on e-safety measures of its annual budget for information technology, which amount to $ 1.5 billion.
Said Martin, testifying before the Commission of Science, Space and Technology House of Representatives unveiled Wednesday, "that some of the systems NASA contain sensitive information that may be offered in the event of theft or loss of the loss of significant financial and adversely affect national security or weaken significantly our advantage of technological competitiveness."
He said the administration was discovered in November that hackers operating from China infiltrated the email address network Jet Propulsion Laboratory at NASA.
He said they were able to penetrate the entire system that gave them the opportunity to amend, copy, delete any sensitive files and set up user accounts for the payment of jet systems and download the materials hacking to steal data from users and other detection systems at NASA. The hackers also managed adjustments in the registry data to conceal their actions.
He said, "Our review revealed that hackers uncovered the accounts of the largest users of Jet Propulsion, allowing them to enter most of the networks of Jet Propulsion."
In another attack last year, hackers stole information related to 150 employees on how to access NASA systems.
Source: Reuters