Employee Data Compromised in Hacker Attack on Space Technology Firm Maxar

By tazz 0 comments April 30, 2025

Employee Data Compromised in Hacker Attack on Space Technology Firm Maxar

Satellite maker Maxar Space Systems is notifying its employees that their personal information was compromised in an October 2024 data breach.

The incident, the company says, was discovered on October 11, and prompted an immediate response to block unauthorized access to its systems.

However, the investigation into the matter revealed that a threat actor had access to Maxar’s network for roughly one week before the data breach was discovered.

During that time, the company says, the threat actor accessed one system “containing certain files with employee personal data”.

The potentially compromised information, the company says, includes names, addresses, gender, Social Security numbers, business phone numbers and other business contact information, employment status, job titles, supervisor, department, and other employment-related information.

“These files did not contain any bank account information or dates of birth,” the company said in the notification letter to the impacted individuals, a copy of which was submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office.

The company is providing the affected people with free identity protection services (only one year of service is offered to former employees) and encourages them to monitor their financial accounts, obtain free copies of their credit reports, and place a security freeze on their credit files.

Maxar says it has eliminated “the circumstances that allowed the hacker’s unauthorized access” and that “a hacker using a Hong Kong-based IP address” was behind the data breach, but did not share further information on the incident, nor on the number of impacted individuals.

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SecurityWeek has emailed Maxar for additional information on the data breach and will update this article as soon as a reply arrives.