{"id":3488854,"date":"2026-03-27T17:59:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/european-commission-verifies-cyberattack-following-hackers-assertion-of-data-breach\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T17:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:59:29","slug":"european-commission-verifies-cyberattack-following-hackers-assertion-of-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/european-commission-verifies-cyberattack-following-hackers-assertion-of-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"European Commission verifies cyberattack following hackers&#8217; assertion of data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/european-commission-verifies-cyberattack-following-hackers-assertion-of-data-breach.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The leading executive arm of the European Union has acknowledged a cyber intrusion after reports indicated that hackers have pilfered extensive data from its cloud storage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">European Commission representative Nika Blazevic informed TechCrunch on Friday that the Commission \u201cidentified a cyber-attack, which impacted a portion of our cloud infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have swiftly acted and contained the attack. Risk reduction measures have also been put into place. The investigation is ongoing, but we can already confirm that the internal systems of the Commission were not compromised during the cyber-attack,\u201d the spokesperson stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a more detailed announcement on its website, the Commission noted that the breach \u201cimpacted its cloud infrastructure that supports the Commission\u2019s web presence on the Europa.eu platform,\u201d which contains a significant amount of the Commission\u2019s website data.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bleeping Computer was the first to report the breach on Friday, referencing sources familiar with the situation. The publication indicated that hackers had appropriated hundreds of gigabytes of data, including several databases, from the European Commission\u2019s account on the cloud service provider Amazon Web Services. The hacker shared evidence of their access with the publication, including screenshots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It remains unclear what specific types of data were compromised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/european-commission-verifies-cyberattack-following-hackers-assertion-of-data-breach.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The leading executive arm of the European Union has acknowledged a cyber intrusion after reports indicated that hackers have pilfered extensive data from its cloud storage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">European Commission representative Nika Blazevic informed TechCrunch on Friday that the Commission \u201cidentified a cyber-attack, which impacted a portion of our cloud infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have swiftly acted and contained the attack. Risk reduction measures have also been put into place. The investigation is ongoing, but we can already confirm that the internal systems of the Commission were not compromised during the cyber-attack,\u201d the spokesperson stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a more detailed announcement on its website, the Commission noted that the breach \u201cimpacted its cloud infrastructure that supports the Commission\u2019s web presence on the Europa.eu platform,\u201d which contains a significant amount of the Commission\u2019s website data.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bleeping Computer was the first to report the breach on Friday, referencing sources familiar with the situation. The publication indicated that hackers had appropriated hundreds of gigabytes of data, including several databases, from the European Commission\u2019s account on the cloud service provider Amazon Web Services. The hacker shared evidence of their access with the publication, including screenshots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It remains unclear what specific types of data were compromised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3488855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3488854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3488854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3488855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3488854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3488854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3488854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}