EU's Cybersecurity Agency Reveals Massive Data Breach: Hackers Blame ShinyHunters
The European Union’s cybersecurity agency, CERT-EU, has released a report detailing a massive data breach that affected the EU’s executive body, the European Commission. According to the report, the hack and subsequent leak of sensitive data were carried out by two separate hacking groups, TeamPCP and ShinyHunters.
The breach is believed to have originated on March 19 when hackers acquired a secret API key associated with the European Commission’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. This allowed them to steal around 92 gigabytes of compressed data, including personal information containing names, email addresses, and contents of emails. The stolen data was then posted online by ShinyHunters.
