Security News > 2021 > April > European Commission, other EU orgs recently hit by cyber-attack
The European Commission and several other European Union organizations were hit by a cyberattack in March, according to a European Commission spokesperson.
"The Commission has set up a 24/7 monitoring services and is actively taking mitigating measures."
Although not confirmed by the European Commission spokesperson, Bloomberg reported earlier that the attack hit the EU organizations last week.
Last month, the European Banking Authority had to take down all email systems after their Microsoft Exchange Servers were breached as part of the ongoing attacks targeting commercial and government organizations worldwide.
In January, the European Medicines Agency said that Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine data stolen from its servers in December was leaked online.
IBM X-Force researchers also warned in December of threat actors targeting organizations associated with the COVID-19 vaccine cold chain, including the European Commission's Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Unio.