European Commission cloud breach leaks EU institutions' data
The cloud infrastructure of the European Commission's Europa.eu web platform was breached and data was stolen. ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the attack and published more than 90GB of files, while the Commission said its internal systems were not affected. Data from 30 EU institutions was subsequently exposed, and the incident was confirmed to be linked to the Trivy supply chain attack.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- European Commission
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Data of 30 EU institutions exposed
- Cause / method
- Breach of Amazon Web Services account and web platform cloud infrastructure linked to the Trivy supply chain attack
- Location
- Other countries
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Timeline
- The European Commission confirmed a cyberattack and investigated a breach of its Amazon cloud account.
- The Commission confirmed data theft from the Europa.eu cloud infrastructure, and ShinyHunters published more than 90GB of files and claimed responsibility for the attack.
- CERT-EU said the Commission hack had exposed data from 30 EU institutions.
- The Commission data breach was confirmed to be linked to the Trivy supply chain attack.
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