Polish Space Agency out of service after cyber-attack

In a post on X (Twitter) on Sunday, March 2, 2025, Poland's Space Agency (POLSA), a member of the European Space Agency, announced that they disconnected their network from the internet and notified relevant authorities following a cybersecurity incident.

An anonymous source inside POLSA declare "the attack appears to be related to an internal email compromise and that staff are being told to use phones for communication instead".

Poland's digitalization minister, Krzysztof Gawkowski, posted separately to note that the attack was detected by state cybersecurity services, and the agency's recovery and subsequent investigation will be supported by computer security incident response teams CSIRT NASK and CSIRT MON.

POLSA's website is now up and running, however, the cause of the incident and any damage to its infrastructure is still being investigated.