Japan’s space agency hit by malware for second time in a year

Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has reportedly suffered its second major malware incident in under a year after an attack that has resulted in the leaking of details of the country’s top-secret Epsilon rocket programme.

According to unconfirmed reports, on 21 November JAXA discovered an unidentified data-stealing “virus” on a computer at the Tsukuba Space Centre used to store details of the country’s prestigious solid fuel rocket programme.