AnonSec Attempts To Crash $222m Drone, Releases Secret Flight Videos (ibtimes.co.uk)

An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from IBTimes that says it's not just governments that have proven themselves capable of hacking into drones: Hackers from the AnonSec group who spent several months hacking NASA have released a huge data dump and revealed they tried to bring down a $222m Global Hawk drone into the Pacific Ocean. The hack included employee personal details, flight logs and video footage collected from unmanned and manned aircraft. The 250GB data dump contained the names, email addresses and phone numbers of 2,414 NASA employees, 2,143 flight logs and 631 videos taken from Nasa aircraft and radar feeds, as well as a self-published paper (known as a 'zine') from the group explaining the extensive technical vulnerabilities that the hackers were able to breach. Among these: the group discovered that the flight paths uploaded into each drone could be replaced with their own.

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Re:Best way to stop these criminals

[tigersha]

I have said this for a long time. If someone blows up a oil refinery and cause 1 billion dollars of damage he/she will rot in prison being fracked in their pimply ass3s for the rest of their lives.

If some hacker scum writes a virus or a hack and causes 1 Billion dollars of damage for some reason they are poor teenage hackers.

They are not. Execute them. And their families and friends and cats and dogs.
Same goes for spammers. Why should a spammer who causes more than a billion dollars in lost productivity NOT be called what he is? A terrorist.