European Commission confirms cyberattack after hackers claim data breach 

The European Union’s apical enforcement assemblage has confirmed a cyberattack aft hackers reportedly stole reams of information from its unreality storage.

European Commission spokesperson Nika Blazevic confirmed to TechCrunch connected Friday that the Commission “discovered a cyber-attack, which affected portion of our unreality infrastructure.”

“We person taken contiguous steps and contained the attack. Risk mitigation measures were besides implemented. The probe is ongoing but we tin already corroborate that the Commission’s interior systems were not affected by the cyber-attack,” the spokesperson said.

In a longer connection connected its website, the Commission said the breach “affected its unreality infrastructure hosting the Commission’s web beingness connected the Europa.eu platform,” which hosts overmuch of the Commission’s website data. 

Bleeping Computer archetypal reported news of the breach connected Friday, citing sources with cognition of the incident. The work said hackers had stolen hundreds of gigabytes of data, including aggregate databases, from the European Commission’s relationship connected unreality elephantine Amazon Web Services. The hacker provided the work grounds of their access, including screenshots.

It’s not instantly wide what kinds of information was stolen.