The European Commission has confirmed a cyberattack after hackers reportedly stole large amounts of data from the cloud storage of the EU’s executive body. This was stated to Tech Crunch by European Commission spokesperson Nika Blažević.
According to Blažević, the European Commission “detected a cyberattack that affected part of its cloud infrastructure.”
“We have taken immediate steps and contained the attack. Risk mitigation measures were also implemented. The investigation is ongoing but we can already confirm that the Commission’s internal systems were not affected by the cyber-attack,” the spokesperson said.
In a more detailed statement on the Commission’s website, it was noted that the breach “affected its cloud infrastructure, which hosts the Commission’s web resources on the Europa.eu platform,” where a significant portion of the European Commission’s website data is stored.
The website Bleeping Computer, which first reported the breach citing sources, stated that the hackers stole hundreds of gigabytes of data, including several databases, from the European Commission’s account on the Amazon Web Services cloud platform. The hacker provided the site with proof of access to the data, including screenshots.
It remains unclear at this time exactly which data was stolen.
