Europe’s cyber agency blames hacking gangs for massive data breach and leak
EU cybersecurity agency identifies hacking group behind data breach.
The European Union's cybersecurity agency, CERT-EU, has attributed a significant data breach at the European Commission to the hacking group TeamPCP. The breach, which occurred on March 19, involved the theft of approximately 92 gigabytes of data from a compromised Amazon Web Services account, affecting the cloud infrastructure of the Commission's Europa.eu platform and potentially compromising the data of at least 29 other EU entities.
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The breach involved the theft of 92 gigabytes of data from the European Commission's AWS account.
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At least 29 EU entities may have had their data compromised in the breach.
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The stolen data included 52,000 files of email messages, raising concerns over personal data exposure.
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