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Europe’s cyber agency blames hacking gangs for massive data breach and leak

CERT-EU blamed the cybercrime group TeamPCP for the recent hack on the European Commission, and said the notorious ShinyHunters gang was responsible for leaking the stolen data online.

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The EU’s cybersecurity agency, CERT‑EU, identified the hacking group TeamPCP as responsible for a recent breach of the European Commission’s executive body. The attackers accessed a compromised Amazon Web Services account used by the Commission. They exfiltrated roughly 92 gigabytes of compressed data. The stolen material included personal information such as names and email addresses, as well as the contents of emails. The report details the scope of the data loss but does not yet outline further remedial actions.

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