European Commission Confirms Cloud Data Breach
European Commission Confirms Cloud Data Breach
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Publish Date: 2026-03-30 04:15:00
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The European Commission has admitted that hackers may have taken data from the cloud infrastructure hosting its Europa.eu platform.
The executive body released a statement on March 27 confirming it had discovered the cyber-attack on March 24 and took “immediate steps” to investigate and contain the breach.
“The commission’s swift response ensured the incident was contained and risk mitigation measures were implemented to protect services and data, without disrupting the availability of the Europa websites,” it continued.
“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. The commission’s services are still investigating the full impact of the incident.”
Read more on European Commission-related incidents: European Governments Breached in Zero-Day Attacks Targeting Ivanti.
The commission said that its “internal systems” were not impacted by the attack, and that it will continue to monitor the situation, analyze the incident and use any findings to “further enhance its cybersecurity capabilities.”
According to screenshots posted to X (formerly Twitter), extortion group ShinyHunters claims to have compromised over 350GB of European Commission data, including data dumps of mail servers, databases, confidential documents, contracts, and much more sensitive material.
Separate screenshots allegedly posted by ShinyHunters appear to show the personally identifiable information (PII) of employees.
Security researchers at the International Cyber Digest claimed that the hackers compromised emails, DKIM signing keys, internal admin URLs, and data from content collaboration platform NextCloud and military financing mechanism Athena. A full single sign on (SSO) user directory may also have been taken.
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