The European Fee has introduced that it suffered a cyber assault that affected “cloud infrastructure internet hosting the Fee’s internet presence on the Europea.eu platform.” Whereas the assault has been contained, Bleeping Laptop reviews that the risk actor claiming to be behind it was capable of take over 350GB of information earlier than the Fee addressed the problem.
“Early findings of our ongoing investigation counsel that knowledge have been taken from [Europa] web sites,” the European Fee says. “The Fee is duly notifying the Union entities who may need been affected by the incident.”
The Fee’s investigation is ongoing, and it has but to reveal how its cloud infrastructure was breached. Based on Bleeping Laptop, the risk actor was capable of entry the Europa websites and worker knowledge through one of many Fee’s Amazon Net Providers accounts. The Fee disclosed a breach that equally impacted worker knowledge in February.
Each breaches look like much less extreme than the Salt Storm hack that impacted US telecommunications firms in 2024. Hackers reportedly gained entry to knowledge from the smartphones of members of each the Trump and Harris campaigns, and different authorities officers. In January 2026, the European Fee launched a brand new Cybersecurity Bundle designed to deal with comparable points, partly by outlining new methods for EU states to cope with doubtlessly dangerous firms of their telecom provide chains.
