The Powerful Greek Army group has compromised the Twitter handle of NASA Director Parimal Kopardekar. A spokesperson from the organization said that they reached out to the group who hacked the handle to inquire as to why they targeted the director of NASA, the attackers denied any political motivation to be there behind the attack, saying that the security incident was merely for 'fun'. As per the attackers, Kopardekar was chosen on the basis of his 'professional association' with NASA.
The director asked the group that how did they hack the handle and the group explained that they detected an exploit that allows them to take over Twitter accounts.
They further told that they are hacking for fun to demonstrate that “that nobody is safe online.”
After getting in touch with the hacker group, Paganini reported that the group had no intention of doing anything malicious with the NASA director’s handle and it could be concluded that it was merely an experiment to test security flaws.
In April 2020, the Powerful Greek Army group breached the Twitter handle of the vice-speakers of the Greek Parliament and KINAL MP, Odysseas Konstantinopoulosening.
“Government we have warned you. Do not lie to your own people again” states one of the messages published by the compromised account, while in another message he posted, he said: “To clarify something. We do NOT have an issue with this one, with the one with whom we have a big issue is the government and its moves. Friendship”.
The list of victims who have been attacked includes the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Finance, Bank of Nigeria, Ministry of Defence Of Azerbaijan, and The National Bank of North Macedonia.
Parimal Kopardekar holds a senior position at NASA as the Air Transportation Systems and is a principal investigator for the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management project at the NASA Ames Research Centre.
