Massive hacking attack on the European Parliament

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, weekly Spiegel reported in a report that there was a big information leak in the European Union Parliament, in the shadow of which a personnel program of this important European institution was affected.

In this way, unrest and concerns have been formed in the European Parliament due to the massive data leak. Based on this, it is said that the personal application “PEOPLE” was hacked at the end of April. Current and former employees of the European Parliament confirmed that they were informed of the matter on Wednesday. The relevant email is available to SPIEGEL.

According to this report, the suspected stolen data includes information such as marital status, residence, education or work experience, military obligations, Affidavits are documents of individual rights and contracts. As the program was used by all employees of the European Parliament and other applicants, thousands of people could be affected.

A spokesperson for the European Parliament told the Euractiv portal : After analysis, detailed information was provided to all active and inactive users on May 22 as recommended by the EDPS [European Data Protection Supervisor]. Cybersecurity experts and the Luxembourg police are currently investigating the matter.

According to SPIEGEL information, citing security circles, individual stolen data sets are now in channels Telegram messaging service has been leaked. It is said that a targeted Russian cyber attack cannot be ruled out. The PEOPLE program is no longer available.

Sonia Hahn, EU representative from the Liberal Democratic Party, said: This scandal must be resolved immediately and The security gaps should be closed.

He added: We know that autocratic regimes deliberately use cyber attacks to destabilize democracies. The cyber security of EU institutions should be prioritized.

Recently, European security authorities are increasingly concerned about the risk of cyber attacks and so-called hacking and leaking operations in Astana. They had warned about the upcoming elections. In such attacks, the stolen information is specifically released. The leak of data related to the shipment of Taurus missiles to Ukraine was a recent example of this. In the scandal, Russia intercepted and later published an internet conference between German Air Force Chief Ingo Gerhardz and three of the country’s top officers on February 19, 2024. These talks were about operational scenarios for the possible delivery of German Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine.

At the beginning of May, the German federal government put the Russian military intelligence service GRU in charge. The cyber attacks on the mailboxes of Social Democratic Party executives also affected, according to Spiegel’s investigation, Kevin Konert, the General Secretary of the Social Democratic Party. In the past, the German federal government has been reluctant to publicly blame cyber-attacks, but that seems to be changing. After the attack on the Social Democratic Party, Analena Barbok, the German Foreign Minister said: Russian state hackers have attacked Germany in the cyberspace.

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