European Commission confirms data breach

European Commission announced it suffered a cyber attack attack affected cloud infrastructure hosting the Commission's Europa web presence.

Commission data had over 350GB of data taken by the attacker threat actor claimed to have taken over 350GB before the issue was addressed.

Europa websites reported that preliminary investigation indicates data were taken from Europa websites, commission statement said early findings suggest data were taken from Europa websites.

European Commission is notifying Union entities that might have been affected, commission said it is notifying Union entities who might have been affected.

AWS account attacker accessed sites and employee data via an Amazon Web Services account, bleeping Computer reported attacker accessed Europa sites and employee data via an AWS account.