The European Commission has announced that it is investigating a cyber attack that took place on Tuesday, targeting its cloud infrastructure that hosts the ‘europa.eu’ website and leading to a data leak.
“Early findings of our ongoing investigation suggest that data was obtained from those websites,” it said in a statement Friday evening, adding that its “quick response” contained the attack and avoided disruption to the websites.
It added that its internal systems were not affected, but that it continues to investigate the incident and monitor the situation to protect the security of its internal systems and data. The institution is also in contact with other EU entities that may have been affected.
It remains unclear who is behind the attack.
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