The European Union's top enforcement agency has acknowledged a cyberattack, with hackers reportedly stealing large amounts of data from the European Union's cloud storage.
European Commission spokesperson Nika Blazevic confirmed to TechCrunch on Friday that the European Commission had “discovered a cyber-attack that affected some of our cloud infrastructure.”
“We took immediate action to contain the attack. Risk mitigation measures were also implemented. The investigation is ongoing, but we can confirm that the commission's internal systems were not affected by the cyber attack,” the spokesperson said.
The European Commission said in a lengthy statement on its website that the breach “impacted the cloud infrastructure hosting the European Commission's web presence, which hosts much of the Commission's website data.”
Bleeping Computer first reported news of the breach on Friday, citing sources familiar with the incident. The paper said hackers stole hundreds of gigabytes of data, including multiple databases, from the European Commission's account on cloud giant Amazon Web Services. The hackers provided the publication with evidence of their access, including screenshots.
It was not immediately clear what type of data was stolen.