{"id":854356,"date":"2026-03-27T18:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/854356\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T18:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:13:14","slug":"european-commission-investigates-cyber-attack-on-its-websites-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/854356\/","title":{"rendered":"European Commission investigates cyber attack on its websites \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident was \u201ccontained,\u201d the Commission said. But the early stages of its investigation suggest some data may have been taken from those websites, it added. Its own internal systems were not affected, it said. <\/p>\n<p>It did not say who was responsible for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>European governments and companies are increasingly under attack from hacking groups, both criminal and state-sponsored. The head of the EU\u2019s cyber agency, ENISA, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/we-are-losing-massively-against-hackers-eu-cyber-chief-warns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">warned<\/a> that Europe is \u201closing massively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Commission added that it is in the process of contacting EU institutions that might have been affected, and that it will continue to monitor the situation and will later analyze what happened in order to boost its cyber protection in future.<\/p>\n<p>The European Parliament experienced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-parliament-id-cards-personal-records-data-breach-chamber-apa-victims\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">major data breach<\/a> in 2024 following the hack of an HR system.<\/p>\n<p>A body called <a href=\"https:\/\/cert.europa.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CERT-EU<\/a>, which sits within the Commission\u2019s IT department, is responsible for the cybersecurity of EU institutions.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident was \u201ccontained,\u201d the Commission said. But the early stages of its investigation suggest some data may&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[14035,3457,2814,2000,299,5187,1699,11579,6084,7965],"class_list":["post-854356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-cloud","tag-cybersecurity","tag-data","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-hackers","tag-infrastructure","tag-platforms"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}