Data breach affirmed by European Commission after ShinyHunters claims

The European Commission has disclosed being impacted by a data breach following the ShinyHunters-claimed attack against its Europa.eu web platform that was initially noted to involve the compromise of one or more of its AWS accounts, reports BleepingComputer.

Immediate action has been taken to contain the incident, which has resulted in the exfiltration of data but not in the disruption of any Europa websites or the Commission's internal systems, according to the Commission. Additional details regarding the intrusion have been scant but ShinyHunters alleged to have pilfered over 350 GB of data from the Commission's web platform, including mail server data dumps, confidential files, databases, contracts, and sensitive material. ShinyHunters also proceeded to release a more than 90 GB archive of files purportedly obtained from the Commission's cloud environment.

Such a development comes more than a month after the European Commission reported the exposure of its staff members' data as a result of the hack of its mobile device management platform.