European Commission investigating breach after Amazon cloud hack
Recorded: March 27, 2026, 3 p.m.
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The European Commission is currently investigating a significant security breach affecting its Amazon cloud infrastructure. Initial reports, confirmed by BleepingComputer, indicated that a threat actor gained unauthorized access to at least one account used to manage the compromised cloud environment. Following the detection of the breach, the Commission’s cybersecurity incident response team initiated a thorough investigation, a necessity given the potential scope of the compromised data. Remarkably, the threat actor, who contacted BleepingComputer, claimed to have exfiltrated over 350 gigabytes of data, encompassing multiple databases and potentially containing information pertaining to European Commission employees and Commission-affiliated email servers. This actor refrained from attempting extortion, stating their intention to publicly release the stolen information at a later date. This incident follows a previous data breach disclosed in February, concerning the Commission’s mobile device management platform. This earlier breach appeared interconnected with attacks targeting other European institutions, notably the Dutch Data Protection Authority and Valtori, highlighting a potential pattern of exploitation involving code-injection vulnerabilities within Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) software. The Commission’s response to this recent breach is intrinsically linked to its ongoing efforts to strengthen cybersecurity defenses, as evidenced by its January proposal for new cybersecurity legislation aimed at mitigating threats from both state-backed actors and cybercriminal organizations targeting European critical infrastructure. Furthermore, the Council of the European Union had simultaneously sanctioned three entities – two Chinese and one Iranian – for their involvement in cyberattacks against member states’ critical infrastructure, underscoring the escalating geopolitical dimension of cybersecurity threats. The investigation is ongoing, focusing on the precise extent of the data compromise and the methods employed by the attacker. |