NASA Honors A Hackers Contribution By Sending An Appreciation Letter After Vulnerability Report

Amazed reading the headline? Well obviously, as its not every day that we hear that a hacker is being honored for hacking a company’s system. A user named @7h3h4ckv157 on the X platform has shared today that he has hacked the NASA system for the second time and has also shared the security vulnerabilities directly with NASA. For this, the user has now been honored by NASA with an appreciation letter.

I Hacked @NASA (again) and reported some vulnerabilities to them. Just today, I received this appreciation letter from them after they patched the loopholes! pic.twitter.com/t4w92culxK

— 7h3h4ckv157 (@7h3h4ckv157) September 26, 2024

The letter was signed by Mark Witt, NASA’s Chief Information Officer it stated, “On behalf of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and NASA’s Vulnerability Disclosure Policy (VDP), we would like to recognize your efforts as an independent security researcher, both in identifying the vulnerability you submitted and for following NASA’s VDP policy and guidelines in responsibly reporting this to us.”

It also stated that the reporting of the vulnerabilities has facilitated the awareness of NASA of the unknown vulnerabilities in its security. As per the user, this appreciation letter was received by him after NASA successfully patched the loopholes.