Nasa hacked 13 times last year.

In 2011 hackers got into NASA’s high security network a reported 13 times. One of those times was from a Chinese IP that gained complete control of the crucial systems and employee accounts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the space agency's inspector general told Congress this week.  Another security failure occurred in March 2011, when an unencrypted NASA notebook computer was stolen. It contained algorithms to command and control the International Space Station. NASA said, however, the station was never in any jeopardy.

            Between October 1^st 2010 and September 30^th 2011 NASA reported a total of 5,400 security incidents. NASA Inspector General Paul Martin said in his written testimony delivered Wednesday to a hearing of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee investigations subcommittee.

            Only about 1% of NASA portable devices are encrypted and 48 were stolen between 2009 and 2010.

            In the attack of the jet Propulsion Laboratory the hackers “gained full access to key JPL systems and sensitive user accounts.” Hackers traced to China-based Internet Protocol addresses stole personal credentials for 150 employees.

            "The attackers had full functional control over these networks," the IG's report stated, adding that they would have been able to "modify, copy or delete sensitive files" or "upload hacking tools to steal user credentials and compromise other NASA systems," the BBC notes.