{"id":231199,"date":"2026-04-04T04:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/european-commission-breach-exposed-data-of-30-eu-entities-cert-eu-says\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T15:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:45:15","slug":"european-commission-breach-exposed-data-of-30-eu-entities-cert-eu-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/european-commission-breach-exposed-data-of-30-eu-entities-cert-eu-says\/","title":{"rendered":"European Commission breach exposed data of 30 EU entities, CERT-EU says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/190333\/security\/european-commission-breach-exposed-data-of-30-eu-entities-cert-eu-says.html\">European Commission breach exposed data of 30 EU entities, CERT-EU says<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/190333\/security\/european-commission-breach-exposed-data-of-30-eu-entities-cert-eu-says.html\">https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/190333\/security\/european-commission-breach-exposed-data-of-30-eu-entities-cert-eu-says.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-04 04:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"securityaffairs.com\">securityaffairs.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><h2>European Commission breach exposed data of 30 EU entities, CERT-EU says<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span> Pierluigi Paganini<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/wp-content\/themes\/security_affairs\/images\/clock-icon.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> April 04, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid mb-4\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/securityaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/european-commission-building-flags.jpg?fit=610%2C407&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CERT-EU says a European Commission cloud hack exposed data from 30 EU entities and links the breach to the TeamPCP group.<\/h2>\n<p>CERT-EU attributed a European Commission cloud breach to the TeamPCP threat group, revealing that data from at least 30 EU entities was exposed. The incident was publicly disclosed on March 27 after inquiries confirmed that the Commission\u2019s Amazon cloud environment had been compromised.<\/p>\n<p>On March 24, the European Commission detected a cyberattack affecting the cloud infrastructure hosting its Europa.eu websites. The incident was quickly contained, with mitigation measures applied and no disruption to website availability. Early findings suggested some data may have been accessed, and potentially affected EU entities are being notified. The Commission alerted CERT-EU two days before disclosure, noting no signs of compromise until March 24, five days after the initial breach. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarly 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.\u201d reads the\u00a0press release\u00a0published by the European Commission. \u201cThe Commission\u2019s services are still investigating the full impact of the incident. \u00a0\u201c<\/p>\n<p>The EU has launched an investigation into the security breach to determine its full impact. However, the Commission initially pointed out that its internal systems were not affected, limiting the overall impact of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission said its internal systems were not affected and will continue monitoring the situation while strengthening protections. It announced it will improve cybersecurity, as the EU faces ongoing cyber and hybrid threats targeting critical services and institutions.<\/p>\n<p>BleepingComputer\u00a0first&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/190333\/security\/european-commission-breach-exposed-data-of-30-eu-entities-cert-eu-says.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission breach exposed data of 30 EU entities, CERT-EU says https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/190333\/security\/european-commission-breach-exposed-data-of-30-eu-entities-cert-eu-says.html Publish Date: 2026-04-04&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/european-commission-building-flags.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,24],"class_list":["post-231199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231201,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231199\/revisions\/231201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}