Beagle 2

The Beagle 2 was a landing spacecraft launched by the to search for evidence of life on  in the year 2000. It was named for the that  sailed on.

Two years prior, Vanessa, a worker at the was bribed by Robert Getas so she could quit her job and spend more time with her children.

When the Beagle 2 landed on 25 December 2003, Vanessa routed all signals to her laptop, causing her fellow employees to assume the landing was a failure. Using the holidays as an excuse to leave early, she then handed over the laptop to Getas. Getas subsequently thanked her by having a man from Abstergo's Lineage Discovery and Acquisition division kidnap her, after she had mentioned she was actually descended from Darwin.

Reference

 * Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy - Holidays: Chapter 1 - Ghosts of Christmas Past