The European Commission, the European Union’s main executive body, is investigating a security breach after a threat actor gained access to the Commission’s Amazon cloud environment.
Although the EU’s executive cabinet has yet to disclose the incident publicly, BleepingComputer has learned that the breach affected at least one of the Commission’s AWS (Amazon Web Services) accounts.
“AWS did not experience a security event, and our services operated as designed,” an AWS spokesperson told BleepingComputer after publishing time.
Sources familiar with the incident have told BleepingComputer that the attack was quickly detected and that the Commission’s cybersecurity incident response team is now investigating.
While the Commission has yet to share any details about this breach, the threat actor who claimed responsibility for the attack reached out to BleepingComputer earlier this week, stating that they had stolen over 350 GB of data (including multiple databases).
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