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The European Commission is investigating a cyberattack on its websites, and early findings suggest some data was stolen. The EU executive said it discovered the attack on Tuesday and took "immediate steps" to stop it.
The attack hit the cloud computing infrastructure used by the Commission to manage the Europa.eu platform, which hosts the websites of the Commission, the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and other EU institutions.
The incident was “contained,” the Commission said. But the early stages of its investigation suggest that some data may have been obtained from those websites. Its internal systems were not affected. The Commission did not say who was responsible for the attack.
European governments and companies are increasingly under attack from hacking groups, both criminal and state-sponsored. The head of the EU's cyber agency, ENISA, recently warned that Europe is "losing a lot."
The Commission added that it is in the process of contacting EU institutions that may have been affected and that it will continue to monitor the situation and later analyse what happened in order to strengthen its cyber defences in the future.
The European Parliament experienced a major data breach in 2024 after a human resources system was hacked. A body called CERT-EU, which is located within the Commission's IT department, is responsible for the cybersecurity of the EU institutions.
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