"Early findings of our ongoing investigation suggest that data have been taken from those websites. The Commission is duly notifying the Union entities who might have been affected by the incident."
"A message posted over the weekend on the website of the ShinyHunters cyber extortion group claimed more than 350GB of data were stolen, including data dumps of mail servers, databases, confidential documents, contracts, and much more sensitive material."
"AWS stated that it did not experience a security event, noting that its services operated as designed. This statement indicates that the attackers leveraged a compromised account or a security misconfiguration."
The European Commission confirmed a cyberattack targeting its cloud infrastructure, impacting the Europa.eu platform. Early investigations indicate that data was stolen, but public websites remained operational. The Commission is notifying affected Union entities and continues to assess the incident's full impact. Hackers claimed to have stolen over 350GB of sensitive data, including documents and contracts. AWS stated that its services were not compromised, suggesting the attackers exploited a compromised account or misconfiguration. This marks the second data breach for the Commission this year.
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